Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5628 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Arun Kumar Sah @ Arun Sah S/O Gyan Chandra Sah Resident Of Village- Bastol, P.S.- Pranpur, District- Katihar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bidhan Chandra Jha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Nagendra Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 29-02-2012 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 3 (1) (x) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that the petitioner abused the informant by calling caste name while the informant was collecting fire wood. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant was collecting fire wood from the orchard of the petitioner and the informant has Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5628 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 2/2 subsequently retracted from her earlier version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Pranpur P.S. Case No. 225 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.