Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39036 of 2011 (3) dt.01-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39036 of 2011 ====================================================== Baiju Kumar @ Baiju Sah S/O Jagdish Shah Resident of Village- Sigarhat, Mohalla- Police Station- Sohsarai, (Bihar Sharif), District- Nalanda .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. R.P. Singh, Adv. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Md. Arif, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN) 3 01-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Buxar Town P.S. Case No. 214 of 2010 for the offences punishable under Sections 385 and 387 of the Indian Panel Code. The F.I.R. has been instituted on the report of the Executive Engineer, Public Health Engineering Department, Buxar reporting a phone call received from the mobile of this petitioner posing as the Principal Secretary of the Department and demanding a sum of Rs. 1 crore and threatening with dire consequences. It so appears that in a similar matter the petitioner was earlier arrested in a case arising from Laheri P.S. Case No. 176 of 2010 while posing as a Deputy Director, Health Services, Government of Bihar. Apart from the aforesaid cases the petitioner is also said to be an accused in Laheri P.S. Case No. 167 of 2009 registered under [STATUTE] . Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39036 of 2011 (3) dt.01-02-2012 consideration the submission made in paragraph 13 of the application regarding the petitioner being in custody since 10.10.2010, let the petitioner namely, Baiju Kumar @ Baiju Sah be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Buxar (Town) P.S. Case No. 214 of 2010 subject to the condition Sudhir Sao brother-in-law of the petitioner who has sworn the affidavit before this Court would stand as one of the bailors and who would be under a duty to inform the Court below in case this petitioner after his release in the present case, is found involved in any further case of similar nature and whereupon the court concerned shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bond of the petitioner and to take him into custody. Bibhash (Jyoti Saran, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 379

Statute Text:
Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code. Theft. Whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.