Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5240 of 2012 ====================================================== Mokama Rai & Ors .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X)(XI) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusations are of making assault, committing theft and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that both sides are residing on the government land and there was dispute with regard to area of possession. It is further submitted that no injury has been caused to any one and for the occurrence of 02.10.2011 at 10:00 AM the F.I.R. was lodged on 03.10.2011 at 12:30 P.M. Delayed lodging of the F.I.R. clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Mokama Rai @ Mukesh Rai 2. Sona Rai 3. Shivjee Rai 4. Kishun Rai, in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5240 of 2012 (2) dt.23-02-2012 2 / 2 2 event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Hajipur S.C. & S.T. P.S. Case No. 433 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.