Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12271 of 2012 ====================================================== Akhilesh Rai @ Akhileshwar Prasad Yadav .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that when police went to arrest one Laxman Rai the accused persons surrounded the police personnels and started firing when none got injured. It is submitted that the petitioner’s side lodged a Complaint Case No. 433 of 2011 against the police personnels hence the present case has been filed. It appears that Laxman Ray @ Laxman Prasad Ydav and another have been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 44570 of 2011. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12271 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 2 / 2 2 to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Marhowrah P.S. Case No. 259 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned A.C.J.M., Saran at Chapra. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 148

Statute Text:
Section 148 of the Indian Penal Code. Rioting armed with deadly Weapon. Whoever is guilty of rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon or with anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.