Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19597 of 2012 ====================================================== Lala Yadav @ Mohan Jee @ Mohan Yadav, Son of Kardhani Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 17-07-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary. The petitioner, who is languishing in custody, seeks bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] , 27 Arms Act, 3/4 Explosive Substance Act and 17 C.L.A. Act, is one of the named accused in this case relating to explosion of explosive substance damaging towers etc. It appears from the report received from the trial court that trial has already been commenced, though, till date no witness is examined. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, for the present, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail. Accordingly, prayer for regular bail of the above named petitioner, in connection with B.P. No. 1157/2011 arising out of Madanpur P.S. Case No. 177/2009, G.R. No. 2057/2009, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad, is hereby, refused. Simultaneously, trial court is directed to proceed expeditiously with the trial and preferably conclude the same within a period of one year from the date of communication of the order. Praveen-II/- (Akhilesh Chandra, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 149

Statute Text:
Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. If an offence be committed by any member of an unlawful assembly, every other member of such assembly shall be guilty of the offence. If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.