Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.934 of 2012 Harihar Prasad Singh @ Harihar Singh Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 12.01.2012 Petitioner being ex-ward member of the panchayat is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of misappropriating the money under Indira Awas Scheme by withdrawing the same in the name of the informant’s wife. Initially Mukhiya, clerk and the ward member were made accused but subsequently petitioner’s name surfaced during supervision. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that informant has retracted from initial version on the money being returned by the F.I.R. named accused persons. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Harihar Prasad Singh @ Harihar Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Supaul in connection with Chhatapur P.S. Case No. 3 of 2011. Shageer ( 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.