Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20268 of 2012 (3) dt.22-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20268 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pramod Mandal, 2. Rajesh Kumar Mandal alias Rajesh Mandal 3. Munna Mandal, 4. Mukka Kumar alias Mukesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 22-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3,4,5 and 6 of Prevention of Witch (daain) Practices Act, 1999. The accusation is of assaulting the informant and her mother and abusing her for practicing witch craft. It is submitted that the accusation is specific against these petitioners and earlier for grazing the crops by she-goat of the informant side a complaint was lodged before the Gram Panchayat. Considering the nature of accusation and the strained relationship between the parties from before, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20268 of 2012 (3) dt.22-06-2012 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, Bhagalpur in connection with Sabour P.S. Case No. 106 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.