Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16761 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajeev Kumar .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-05-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. J.N. Thakur, learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Subsequently [STATUTE] . was also added. The informant being the police officer received information and reached to the place of occurrence when found the accused persons were taking the injured Kamlesh Mishra by time the police intervened the mob, pelted stones in which one constable Rabindra Singh received injuries who subsequently succumbed to injuries. It is submitted that accusation is against mob and there is no overt act alleged against the petitioner. The statement has been made in paragraph no. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16761 of 2012 (2) dt.08-05-2012 2 / 2 2 13 of petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent but it appears that others have been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 11929 of 2010, 34001 of 2008 and 20702 of 2008. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner and try to dispose off the regular bail application of petitioner preferably on the same day if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Sri Krishna Puri P.S. Case No. 196 of 2007 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Patna. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 342

Statute Text:
Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully confining any person. Whoever wrongfully confines any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.