Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39094 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Radheshyam Pandit 2. Manoj Pandit @ Manoj Kumar Pandit. 3. Vivek Pandit @ Viakas Pandit. 4. Ajit Pandit @ Ajit Kumar Pandit. 5. Sibu Pandit. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-10-2012 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 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the petitioners entered into the house of the informant, assaulted him with fists and slaps and abused and also pointed out the pistol on the neck. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for the occurrence of 15.03.2011, the complaint was filed on 19.03.2012 which came to be registered as police case on 04.07.2012 when the petitioners’ side also lodged a case against the informant. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39094 of 2012 (2) dt.12-10-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in connection with Sonbarsa P.S. Case No. 76 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 457

Statute Text:
Section 457 of the Indian Penal Code. Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night in order to the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment. Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night, or house-breaking by night in order to the committing of any offence punishable with imprisonment, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine; and, if the offence intended to be committed is theft, the term of the imprisonment may be extended to fourteen years.