Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15087 of 2012 ====================================================== Pankaj Chaudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of demand of extortion. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the occurrence of 12.11.2011 the complaint was filed on 24.11.2011. The delayed lodging of the complaint clouds the bonafide of the accusation. Considering the delayed nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15087 of 2012 (2) dt.27-04-2012 2/2 with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri Jeevan Lal, learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Nawada in connection with Complaint Case No. 1163 of 2011, Tr. No. 3080 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 379

Statute Text:
Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code. Theft. Whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.