Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12425 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Prasad Singh & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 27-04-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(V)(X)(XV) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusation is of dismantling the hutment of the informant, making assault and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there was bona fide land dispute between the parties and for ripping of the crop, the occurrence took place when petitioners’ side earlier lodged a case being Complaint Case No. 169 of 2012 against the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that petitioners’ side dismantled the hutment of the informant and assaulted, but has not denied the fact that Section 107 Cr.P.C. proceeding is going on between the parties Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12425 of 2012 (3) dt.27-04-2012 2 / 2 2 from before. Considering the accusation levelled in the background of litigated background between the parties, let the petitioners namely 1. Dinesh Prasad Singh 2. Suman Kumar Singh @ Sugam Kumar, in the 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, Bhagalpur in connection with Sultanganj P.S. Case No. 23 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 427

Statute Text:
Section 427 of the Indian Penal Code. Mischief, and thereby causing damage to the amount of 50 rupees or upwards. Whoever commits mischief and thereby causes loss or damage to the amount of fifty rupees or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.