Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37537 of 2012 ====================================================== Dharmendra Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 01-10-2012 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] . The accusation is of committing theft in the house of the informant. The petitioner was identified by the informant through window. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that since the petitioner filed application for removing the encroachment at the hands of the informant on 03.12.2011 then the present case has been lodged on 25.01.2012. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37537 of 2012 (2) dt.01-10-2012 2/2 period of six weeks from today in connection with Bhorey P.S. Case No. 19 of 2012 pending in the court of learned CJM, Gopalganj. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 457

Statute Text:
Section 457 of the Indian Penal Code. Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night in order to the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment. Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night, or house-breaking by night in order to the committing of any offence punishable with imprisonment, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine; and, if the offence intended to be committed is theft, the term of the imprisonment may be extended to fourteen years.