Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3166 of 2012 ====================================================== Arvind Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 31-01-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Sections 17, 18 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act. On recovery of certain extremist literature from the possession of Sanjeev Kumar Sah the present case was instituted who subsequently named one Raj Kumar Paswan who named the petitioner. A statement has been made in para 9 of the petition that petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Arvind Paswan, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3166 of 2012 (2) dt.31-01-2012 2 / 2 2 the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Bakhari P.S. Case No. 51 of 2008. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 212

Statute Text:
Section 212 of the Indian Penal Code. Harbouring an offender, If the offence be capital. Whenever an offence has been committed, whoever harbours or conceals a person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the offender, with the intention of screening him from legal punishment; if a capital offence — shall, if the offence is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine; if punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment — and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment which may extend to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year, and not to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence for a term which may extend to one-fourth part of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence, or with fine, or with both. "Offence" in this section includes any act committed at any place out of India, which, if committed in India, would be punishable under any of the following sections, namely, 302, 304, 382, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 402, 435, 436, 449, 450, 457, 458, 459 and 460; and every such act shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be punishable as if the accused person had been guilty of it in India.