Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8515 of 2012 ====================================================== Lal Chand Sah .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 6 02-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and under the provisions of Electricity Act. The accusation is of consumption of unauthorized electricity. The loss has been calculated to the tune of Rs.4.5 lacs. The petitioner undertakes to deposit Rs.1,00000/- within six months from today before the authority concerned. The aforesaid payment will be subject to compounding proceeding. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in Sarsi P.S.case No.52 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8515 of 2012 (6) dt.02-08-2012 2 down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted provisionally till the deposit of the aforesaid amount. Anil/- (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.