Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23039 of 2012 ====================================================== Badhari Dome .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in connection with Bhagwan Bazar P.S. Case No. 55 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra. The accusation is of taking Rs. 7,000/- from the pocket of the informant when one Suraj Dome was apprehended who conveyed that it was this petitioner who flee away with stolen amount. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that except the confession of the co-accused, there is nothing against this petitioner and the petitioner has no criminal antecedent, moreover, the apprehended accused Suraj Dome has been granted regular bail by the court below. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23039 of 2012 (2) dt.03-07-2012 2/2 the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. 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: 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.