Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15132 of 2012 ====================================================== Mantu Mishra .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. It is alleged that pulses were being carried on a tractor, which was suspected to be transported for smuggling and when the informant asked the accused persons to take the tractor to the police station, they pelted stones in which the informant and the police personnel received injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the pulse belongs to one Sadhu Mishra @ Shyam Charan Mishra, whereas the petitioner was owner of the tractor in question and accusation has been levelled on suspicion when no case under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act is made out. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15132 of 2012 (2) dt.24-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the nature of accusation, let the petitioner namely Mantu Mishra, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, West Champaran at Bettiah in connection with Inerwa P.S. Case No. 48 of 2011. 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.