Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25152 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Md. Arif 2. Musa 3. Naresh Chauhan 4. Hasib 5. Mazharulbari 6. Mazharul @ Mojib .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 33 of Indian Forest Act. The accusation is of cutting Semal tree from the land of graveyard bearing plot no. 163. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the Semal tree has been cut from plot no. 601 which gets reflected from the report of the Circle Officer submitted after measurement of the land and said plot is belongs to the petitioners and for the Semal tree no permission of forest department is required. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25152 of 2012 (2) dt.23-07-2012 2/2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, 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, Purnea in connection with Amour P.S. Case No. 76 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.