Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33887 of 2012 (2) dt.03-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33887 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ibran Ali, 2. Imran Ali, 3. Ashraf Ali .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. For a dispute of making payment to the informant with regard to the washing of clothes, the informant was assaulted with his pressing iron and rupees three hundred seventy five was taken away. It is submitted that since the informant is a tenant of the political rival to the petitioners, hence, at the behest of the owner of the house the case has been lodged when for the occurrence of 9.6.2012 the FIR was lodged on 10.6.2012. Statement has been made in paragraph 18 of the petition that the petitioner nos. 1 and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33887 of 2012 (2) dt.03-09-2012 2 have no criminal antecedent whereas petitioner no. 3 is involved in two other cases. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner nos. 1 and 2 be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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 CJM, Kaimur (Bhabua) in S.C./S.T. (Bhabua) P.S. Case no. 39 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. So far as petitioner no. 3 is concerned, let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner no. 3 in case the petitioner no. 3 surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with the aforementioned case pending in the court of learned C.J.M., Kaimur, Bhabua. Anil/- (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.