Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10155 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mahanand Jha 2. Punyanand Jya 3. Saroj Jha @ Saroj Kumar Jha. 4. Omkar Jha @ Omkar Nath Jha. 5. Shambhu Jha @ Shambhu Nath Jha. 6. Rakesh Jha @ Rakesh Thakur. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is that when Nazir of the civil court went to execute the delivery of possession then the accused persons assembled and made assault when Shyam Sundar Mishra, who is not the petitioner before this Court, took away gold ring from the finger of the advocate. Considering the accusation being general in nature against the all the accused, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10155 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2/2 with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Katihar (Nagar) P.S. Case No. 758 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.