Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13360 of 2012 ====================================================== Jag Mahto & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Petitioners being agnates of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on 23.12.2011 when the informant was constructing the hut on his land then the petitioners started uprooting and dismantling the hut and extortion demand of Rs. 20,000/- was also made by the accused persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that informant has himself indicated that there was 107 Cr.P.C. proceeding between the parties when petitioners’’ side claimed the land in question as their own purchased land and for the occurrence of 23.12.2011 the F.I.R. was registered on 03.01.2012. Considering the delayed lodging of the F.I.R. and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13360 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2 / 2 2 the accusation arising out of land dispute between the parties, let the petitioners namely 1. Jag Mahto 2. Manoj Mahto 3. Ramsati Devi 4. Chandramati Devi 5. Renu Devi, 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, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Gopalpur P.S. Case No. 01 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 448

Statute Text:
Section 448 of the Indian Penal Code. House-trespass. Whoever commits house-trespass shall be punished with 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.