Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9375 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Yogendra Sahani 2. Umesh Sahni. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3 (I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusations are of making assault, committing theft and abusing the informant by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for the occurrence of 18.12.2011 the FIR was lodged on 03.01.2012 when there is counter version of the occurrence also. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that one of the injuries has been found to be grievous. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9375 of 2012 (2) dt.29-03-2012 2/2 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dalsingsarai in connection with Angarghat P.S. Case No. 03 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make necessary correction in the prayer portion of the petition. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.