Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5122 of 2012 (2) dt.22-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5122 of 2012 ====================================================== Sita Ram Yadav & Anr .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-02-2012 Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1)(x) of S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities)Act. The accusations are of making assault, trying to establish forceful physical relationship and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioners that since the petitioners made objection with regard to irregularities committed by panchayat representatives and other authorities which led to institution of a case hence, the present informant was set up by those panchayat representatives. It appears that for occurrence of 13.09.2011, complaint was lodged on 16.09.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 06.11.2011. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5122 of 2012 (2) dt.22-02-2012 Delayed lodging of F.I.R. clouds the bonafide of accusation, let the petitioners, Sita Ram Yadav and Satto Yadav, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Rosera P.S. Case No. 189 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M., Rosera, District-Samastipur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.