Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12602 of 2012 ====================================================== Mukesh Kumar Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusation is of making abuse by calling caste name when informant refused to issue the identity slip since there was no document with regard to the land possession. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner’s side earlier lodged complaint against the informant, hence accusation has been levelled. Considering the nature of accusation and the fact that petitioner has earlier lodged a case against the informant, let the petitioner namely Mukesh Kumar Choudhary, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12602 of 2012 (2) dt.11-04-2012 2 / 2 2 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Rosera, Samastipur in connection with Rosera P.S. Case No. 7 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 353

Statute Text:
Section 353 of the Indian Penal Code. Assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person being a public servant in the execution of his duty as such public servant, or with intent to prevent or deter that person from discharging his duty as such public servant, or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by such person to the lawful discharge of his duty as such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.