Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37930 of 2012 (2) dt.04-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37930 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dhanik Lal Choudhary, 2. Siya Ram Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] , sections 16 and 17 of C.L.A. Act and section 27 of the Arms Act. The accusation of firing is against 27 persons and sixty-seveny unknown when the brother of the informant succumbed to the injuries. It is submitted that several accused persons have been acquitted vide S.T. No. 208 of 2010. In view of this court, the contention of learned counsel for the petitioners can be good grounds for consideration of regular bail of the petitioners by the learned court below in case the petitioners surrender within six weeks from today in connection with Mahisi P.S. Case no. 4 of 2008 pending in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37930 of 2012 (2) dt.04-10-2012 court of learned C.J.M., Saharsa. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioners. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 149

Statute Text:
Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. If an offence be committed by any member of an unlawful assembly, every other member of such assembly shall be guilty of the offence. If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.