Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25531 of 2012 ====================================================== Naresh Singh & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioners took the son of the complainant on 20.10.2011 to Rajasthan to provide employment on payment of Rs. 4,000/- monthly salary but subsequently the complainant’s son went missing and when on 17.03.2011 the complainant enquired from the petitioners when they assaulted the complainant and snatched gold earring. It is submitted that there is no proof that the petitioners took the complainant’s son for employment to Rajasthan. The statement has been made in paragraph no. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25531 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 2 / 2 2 17 of the petition that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering delayed filing of the complaint, let the petitioners, Naresh Singh, Lal Babu Singh and Sanjay Singh 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 Complaint Case No. 206(C) 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 J.M. Ist Class, Barh, Patna, 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.