Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6950 of 2012 ====================================================== Ganesh Das .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 21-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that petitioner committed theft when informant saw in the torch light that five persons running away from the house when this petitioner was carrying suitcase which contains jewellary worth Rs. 1,00,000/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is labouror and he deposited certain amount to the informant for purchase of land and in order to misappropriate the money, frivolous case has been lodged. It is further submitted that petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Ganesh Das, in the event of his arrest or surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6950 of 2012 (3) dt.21-03-2012 2 / 2 2 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sikrahana at Motihari in connection with Phenhara P.S. Case No. 79 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 380

Statute Text:
Section 380 of the Indian Penal Code. Theft in a building, tent or vessel. Whoever commits theft in any building, tent or vessel, which building, tent or vessel is used as a human dwelling, or used for the custody of property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.