Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7797 of 2012 ====================================================== Deepak Kumar Kushwaha .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.10187 of 2012 ====================================================== Guddu Kumar .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of committing theft of electric wire worth Rs. 20,000/-. The name of petitioners sprang up on inculpratory statement of one Satyendra Ram. It is submitted that there is no recovery from the petitioners and petitioner Deepak Kumar Kushwaha is involved in one other case in which he is on bail but petitioner Guddu Kumar is not Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7797 of 2012 (2) dt.15-03-2012 2 / 2 2 involved in any other case. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners but keeping in view that there is no recovery from the petitioners and they are not involved in any case of theft of electric wire it is a fit case for grant of regular bail if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of the order in connection with Siwan (Town) P.S. Case No. 13 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Siwan. With this observation, the applications are disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.