Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9261 of 2012 ====================================================== Yogendra Prasad Rai .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.9266 of 2012 ====================================================== Lallan Singh @ Lallan Prasad Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and Mr. Parmanand Prasad, learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioners being the ex and present Panchayat Secretaries are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner Lallan Singh @ Lallan Prasad Singh failed to hand over the charge to the petitioner Yogendra Prasad Rai when the case was lodged. It was claimed by the petitioner Lallan Singh @ Lallan Prasad Singh that he subsequently Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9261 of 2012 (2) dt.27-03-2012 2 / 2 2 handed over the charge to the petitioner Yogendra Prasad Rai and papers and files were also in possession of Panchayat Mukhiya. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner Lallan Singh @ Lallan Prasad Singh that the departmental enquiry was initiated and subsequently he was exonerated from the charge and has already retired from the service whereas it is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner Yogendra Prasad Rai that Lallan Singh @ Lallan Prasad Singh never given any charge of documents. Considering the fact that petitioner Lallan Singh @ Lallan Prasad Singh has been exonerated in departmental enquiry, let the petitioners, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Derni P.S. Case No. 78 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Saran at Chapra, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 186

Statute Text:
Section 186 of the Indian Penal Code. Obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions. Whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his public functions, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.