Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40927 of 2012 ====================================================== Babli Rai (Mukhiya) S/O Ram Dayal Rai R/O Vill-Ballochak, P.S.- Dalsingsarai, Distt-Samastipur. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] , 27 of the Arms Act and 1(i) of The Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. It is alleged that the informant being the police officer was on patrolling duty found that one Bibha Kumari, a defeated candidate of the Zila Parishad, was leading a mob and raising slogans against the government when mob started pelting stones causing injury to the police personnels when the police resorted to firing also. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that accusation is omnibus and general Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40927 of 2012 (2) dt.26-11-2012 2 / 2 2 against 300-400 people when others have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court and it is orally submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Dalsingsarai P.S. Case No. 114 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M., Dalsingsarai, Samastipur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.