Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31901 of 2012 ====================================================== Deepak Sharma & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-11-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 3(i)(x) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that on the order of the petitioner Deepak Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Rai and Amrendra Kumar(non- petitioner) set the hutment of the informant on fire causing damage to the property when petitioner Pankaj Sharma was identified by the informant in the flash light. It is orally submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that informant does not belong to the S.C./S.T. community and accusation of setting fire is against others when Deepak Sharma earlier lodged Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 165 of 2008 against the informant. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31901 of 2012 (2) dt.05-11-2012 2 / 2 2 1. Deepak Sharma 2. Pankaj Sharma @ Pankaj 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, Begusarai in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 34 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.