Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17651 of 2012 ====================================================== Bechan Giri @ Ram Bechan Ram & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is that in the background of earlier land dispute there was some reconciliation when 28 F.I.R. named accused made assault to the informant and taken away the watch, uniform and government files. It is submitted that in the background of erecting wall, accusation has been levelled when for same occurrence of 12.06.2011 itself the case being Kako P.S. Case No. 129 of 2011 has been lodged in which petitioners were also named but subsequently they have been granted anticipatory bail by the learned court below on 22.02.2012 contained in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17651 of 2012 (2) dt.11-05-2012 2 / 2 2 Annexure-7 vide A.B.P. No. 531 of 2011 whereas the present F.I.R. was registered at the same time in which it was alleged that the petitioners sides and informant side have settled dispute with regard to land. Considering the fact that earlier with similar accusation, case has been lodged against the petitioners in which they have been granted anticipatory bail by the learned court below, let the petitioners, Bechan Giri @ Ram Bachan Ram and Chintoo Giri @ Chintoo Kumar Giri @ Mantoo Giri be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kako P.S. Case No. 130 of 2011 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 C.J.M. Jehanabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 379

Statute Text:
Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code. Theft. Whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.