Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33804 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Wakil Rai 2. Sheoji Rai 3. Sipahi Rai 4. Bindeshwar Rai 5. Mukesh Rai @ Mukesh Kumar Rai 6. Amarendra Rai 7. Rajesh Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-09-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that hundred people surrounded the house of the informant, took the inmates in their custody, looted house hold articles, set the vehicle parked at the door on fire and blasted the house. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation is not specific against the petitioners when a statement has been made in para 8 that petitioners have no concern with the Maoist organization and petitioners have no criminal antecedent, a statement to that effect has been made in para 11 of the petition. It is further submitted that since petitioners are the witnesses against the son of the informant who are accused in Panpur P.S. Case No. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33804 of 2012 (2) dt.12-09-2012 2 / 2 2 59 of 2010, hence they have been implicated in the present case. Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Panpur P.S. Case No. 08 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 148

Statute Text:
Section 148 of the Indian Penal Code. Rioting armed with deadly Weapon. Whoever is guilty of rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon or with anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.