Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40284 of 2012 ====================================================== Uma Sahni @ Uma Shankar Sahni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Paroo P.S. Case No. 190 of 2008 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magtistrate, West Muzaffarpur. It is alleged that the informant and his brother-in-law were assaulted by twenty people when the brother-in-law of the informant succumbed to the injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation against all the accused persons is omnibus when other accused who were not named in the FIR were granted anticipatory bail and who were named in the FIR were granted regular bail by this Court. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the privilege of regular bail to the petitioner if he Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40284 of 2012 (2) dt.06-11-2012 2/2 surrenders within a period of eight weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 342

Statute Text:
Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully confining any person. Whoever wrongfully confines any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.