Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21771 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandra Bhushan Rai @ Bhushan Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 32 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai. It is alleged that the informant raided the house of the petitioner on the information that some extremists have taken shelter in the house of the petitioner when the petitioner and the other extremists fled away and one motorcycle was left by the extremists at the door of the petitioner. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for grant of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21771 of 2012 (3) dt.04-07-2012 2/2 With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 212

Statute Text:
Section 212 of the Indian Penal Code. Harbouring an offender, If the offence be capital. Whenever an offence has been committed, whoever harbours or conceals a person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the offender, with the intention of screening him from legal punishment; if a capital offence — shall, if the offence is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine; if punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment — and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment which may extend to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year, and not to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence for a term which may extend to one-fourth part of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence, or with fine, or with both. "Offence" in this section includes any act committed at any place out of India, which, if committed in India, would be punishable under any of the following sections, namely, 302, 304, 382, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 402, 435, 436, 449, 450, 457, 458, 459 and 460; and every such act shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be punishable as if the accused person had been guilty of it in India.