Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.48460 of 2012 (2) dt.17-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.48460 of 2012 ====================================================== Pintu Sah son of Naro Sah .... .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-12-2012 Heard Mr. Anujit Sinha, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. A.M.P. Mehta, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner is in custody since 11.10.2012 in connection with Mojahidpur P.S. Case No. 77 of 2012 for the alleged offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner seeks regular bail in the present application. As per the allegation, there was a road accident which led to killing of small boy by a bus. There was protest by the local people thereafter local people assembled and indulged in anti- social activities and they torched the other vehicles. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that nothing more than the fact that petitioner also was the member of the mob has come in course of investigation. There is no specific overtact alleged against this petitioner in relation to the said occurrence. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.48460 of 2012 (2) dt.17-12-2012 In view of the above, let the petitioner Pintu Sah be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in connection with Mojahidpur P. S. Case No. 77 of 2012. Saif/- (Chakradhari Sharan Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 149

Statute Text:
Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. If an offence be committed by any member of an unlawful assembly, every other member of such assembly shall be guilty of the offence. If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.