Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37318 of 2011 ====================================================== Damodar Choudhary, son of late Ganeshi Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Binod Kumar, Adv. For the State : Mr. R.C. Singh, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. ANJANA PRAKASH ORAL ORDER 4. 28-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case instituted for the offence under [STATUTE] . A report was called for from the Trial Court which reveals that the Trial Court will take six months in concluding the trial. In view of such report, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. The prayer for bail is rejected. However, he may renew his prayer for bail if trial is not concluded by the Trial Court, if the reason for it is not attributed to the petitioner. S.Ali (Anjana Prakash, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 149

Statute Text:
Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. If an offence be committed by any member of an unlawful assembly, every other member of such assembly shall be guilty of the offence. If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.