Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3086 of 2012 ====================================================== Shamser Sheikh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.3180 of 2012 ====================================================== Sahnaza @ Sahnaza Khan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 31-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. It is alleged that four persons were taking fertilizer on bicycle to Nepal but when they were apprehended certain Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3086 of 2012 (2) dt.31-01-2012 2 / 2 2 people got them released. One of them was apprehended who disclosed the name of the petitioners being the persons who rescued the apprehended persons. It is submitted that other similarly situated accused persons has been granted bail, though with the similar accusation the petitioner Sahnaza @ Sahnaza Khan has also been made accused but none appears on his behalf. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria In connection with Narpatganj (Basmatia) P.S. Case No. 189 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 342

Statute Text:
Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully confining any person. Whoever wrongfully confines any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.