Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7390 of 2012 ====================================================== Sumit Kumar Rai@Pinku Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of snatching Scorpio vehicle, a bag containing Rs. 3,00,000/- and jewellery worth Rs. 1,30,000/- on pistol point. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the vehicle in question was on hire purchase and when the purchaser became defaulter then the finance company authorized Upendra Singh to seize and take possession of the vehicle when the vehicle was seized on 28.09.2010 and thereafter the present case was lodged on 29.11.2010. It appears that accused Upendra Singh has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 8164 of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7390 of 2012 (2) dt.15-03-2012 2 / 2 2 2011. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. It is expected that learned Court below will dispose of the application, preferably on the same day. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off in connection with Sahpur P.S. Case No. 203 of 2010, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through Fax to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 382

Statute Text:
Section 382 of the Indian Penal Code. Theft, after preparation having been made for causing death, or hurt, or restraint or fear of death, or of hurt or of restraint, in order to the committing of such theft, or to retiring after committing it, or to retaining property taken by it. Whoever commits theft, having made preparation for causing death, or hurt, or restraint, or fear of death, or of hurt, or of restraint, to any person, in order to the committing of such theft, or in order to the effecting of his escape after the committing of such theft or in order to the retaining of property taken by such theft, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.