Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42991 of 2012 ====================================================== Jitendra Kumar Singh @ Jitendra Rai @ Jhagralu Rai S/O Ajay Rai Resident Of Village- Chilhari, P.S.- Dumraon, District- Buxar. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation against the petitioner is of snatching the register meant for entering for distribution of seeds subsidiaries. Let the learned court below consider regular bail of the petitioner if he surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Dumraon P.S. Case No.258 of 2012 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Buxar. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42991 of 2012 (2) dt.17-12-2012 2 / 2 2 Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 353

Statute Text:
Section 353 of the Indian Penal Code. Assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person being a public servant in the execution of his duty as such public servant, or with intent to prevent or deter that person from discharging his duty as such public servant, or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by such person to 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 two years, or with fine, or with both.