Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36 of 2012 1. Sagun Lal Mandal, 2. Subodh Mandal alias Sumod mandal Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 3/ 19.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of entering into the house, committing theft and making assault though the specific accusation against the petitioners is of abusing the informant by caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for the occurrence of 7.8.2011, the complaint was filed on 10.8.2011 at the behest of one Asarfi Ram with whom the petitioners were on litigating terms from before. It is further submitted that the petitioners’ side has also filed a case against the informant. Considering the delayed lodging of the case which clouds the bonafide of the accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M., Madhubani in Raj 2 Nagar P.S. Case No. 170 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 147

Statute Text:
Section 147 of the Indian Penal Code. Rioting. Whoever is guilty of rioting, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.