Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18178 of 2012 ====================================================== Ranjeet Singh @ Ranjeet Kumar .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-05-2012 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] and 27 of the Arms Act. The accusation is of making indiscriminate firing when no injury has been caused to any one. It appears that the petitioner was granted anticipatory bail till submission of final form vide Cr. Misc. No. 37625 of 2007. In view of this Court, the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner is not maintainable in view of ratio laid down in the case of Bishundeo Sahu Vs. The State of Bihar & Ors reported in 2011(1) P.L.J.R. 731 but the learned court below can grant regular bail in view of ratio laid down in the aforesaid case and in the case of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18178 of 2012 (2) dt.15-05-2012 2 / 2 2 Mahendra Prasad Singh Vs. The State of Bihar reported in 2004(3)P. L.J.R. 491. Let the learned court below pass appropriate order in view of ratio laid down in the aforesaid two cases if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Karpi P.S. Case No. 61 of 2006 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Jehanabad. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.