Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41546 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Madeshar Yadav @ Madeshwar Yadav 2. Mohan Yadav. 3. Ramashankar Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3 (I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that since the accused persons have forcibly grabbed the land of the informant, the protest was made when the informant was assaulted with fists and slaps on 10.06.2012 and abused by calling caste name, the subsequent occurrence occurred on 13.07.2012 when the FIR was registered on 15.07.2012. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the delayed lodging of the case in the background of serious land dispute, clouds the bona fide of the accusation when the occurrence has not taken place in public view. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41546 of 2012 (2) dt.03-12-2012 2/2 the delay in lodging of the case occurred due to the promise on behalf of the accused persons to vacate the land after reaping of the cane crop. Considering the accusation in the background of the land dispute and delayed lodging of the case, 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 with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Gopalganj (SC/ST) P.S. Case No. 18 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.