Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26725 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Md. Riyasat 2. Md. Shahid. 3. Md. Junaid. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.27515 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Ansar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 31-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Crowd of 500 to 600 people assembled in the campus of the High School, Baisi on the information that the Congress Party will provide relief to the storm affected persons and when they came to know that no relief will be distributed, the mob blocked the road and made assault to the BDO and police officer. Considering the accusation against the mob, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26725 of 2012 (2) dt.31-07-2012 2/2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection with Baisi P.S. Case No. 104 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 152

Statute Text:
Section 152 of the Indian Penal Code. Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc. Whoever assaults or threatens to assault, or obstructs or attempts to obstruct, any public servant in the discharge of his duty as such public servant, in endeavoring to disperse an unlawful assembly, or to suppress a riot or affray, or uses, or threatens, or attempts to use criminal force to 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.