Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19198 of 2012 ====================================================== Shankar Das .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Belhar P.S. Case No. 04 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] , Section 27 of the Arms Act, Section 17 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act and Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka. The police met with the extremists who were on motorcycle, tractor and jeep with S.L.R. and A.K.- 47 when the accused persons started firing on the police, subsequently, six person from the tractor were apprehended and rest managed to flee away. The driver of the tractor disclosed the name of this petitioner and one Pramod Das as one of the persons who were on the tractor. A statement has been made in para 12 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19198 of 2012 (3) dt.06-08-2012 2/2 It appears that other accused persons have been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 184 of 2012 and 16392 of 2010. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 412

Statute Text:
Section 412 of the Indian Penal Code. Dishonestly receiving stolen property, knowing that it was obtained by Dacoity. Whoever dishonestly receives or retains any stolen property, the possession whereof he knows or has reason to believe to have been transferred by the commission of dacoity, or dishonestly receives from a person, whom he knows or has reason to believe to belong or to have belonged to a gang of dacoits, property which he knows or has reason to believe to have been stolen, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.