Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33804 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Wakil Rai 2. Sheoji Rai 3. Sipahi Rai 4. Bindeshwar Rai 5. Mukesh Rai @ Mukesh Kumar Rai 6. Amarendra Rai 7. Rajesh Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-09-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that hundred people surrounded the house of the informant, took the inmates in their custody, looted house hold articles, set the vehicle parked at the door on fire and blasted the house. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation is not specific against the petitioners when a statement has been made in para 8 that petitioners have no concern with the Maoist organization and petitioners have no criminal antecedent, a statement to that effect has been made in para 11 of the petition. It is further submitted that since petitioners are the witnesses against the son of the informant who are accused in Panpur P.S. Case No. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33804 of 2012 (2) dt.12-09-2012 2 / 2 2 59 of 2010, hence they have been implicated in the present case. Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Panpur P.S. Case No. 08 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 436

Statute Text:
Section 436 of the Indian Penal Code. Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house etc. Whoever commits mischief by fire or any explosive substance, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause the destruction of any building which is ordinarily used as a place of worship or as a human dwelling or as a place for the custody of property, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.