Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18704 of 2012 (3) dt.26-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18704 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Bittu Kumar, 2. Tuddu alias Tuddu Singh, 3. Shambhu Singh 4. Rajdeo Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 26-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that when the police went to raid the house of one Basant Singh, then his agnate and other villagers protested when the stones were pelted on the police party. Some how, the informant escaped unhurt. It is submitted that none of the petitioners were accused in the case in which the police went to raid the place. Considering the accusation against the mob, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18704 of 2012 (3) dt.26-06-2012 Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Lalganj P.S. Case No.16 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.