Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.714 of 2012 Nilam Devi & Anr. Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- with Criminal Miscellaneous No.958 of 2012 Jai Ram Chaturvedi Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 10.01.2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that F.I.R. named accused persons and 50 others blocked the road and when the informant asked them to remove the blockade then they smashed the file of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation is not specific against the petitioners and petitioners are not named in the F.I.R. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Nilam Devi 2. Hira Devi 3. Jai Ram Chaturvedi, 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, Sitamarhi in connection with Sursand P.S. Case No. 38 of 2011. Shageer ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 332

Statute Text:
Section 332 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty. Whoever voluntarily causes hurt to any person being a public servant in the discharge of his duty as such public servant, or with intent to prevent or deter that person or any other public servant from discharging his duty as such public servant, or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by that person in the lawful discharge of his duty as such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.