{"id":193508,"date":"2011-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bechan-sharma-anr-vs-the-state-of-bihar-on-28-september-2011"},"modified":"2018-07-19T07:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T02:21:43","slug":"bechan-sharma-anr-vs-the-state-of-bihar-on-28-september-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bechan-sharma-anr-vs-the-state-of-bihar-on-28-september-2011","title":{"rendered":"Bechan Sharma &amp; Anr vs The State Of Bihar on 28 September, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Patna High Court &#8211; Orders<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Bechan Sharma &amp; Anr vs The State Of Bihar on 28 September, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA\n                           Criminal Miscellaneous No.31025 of 2011\n                                      1. Bechan Sharma\n                                      2. Santosh Sharma\n                                      Both sons of Hanuman Sharma\n                                              Versus\n                                     The State Of Bihar\n                                 ----------------------------------\n<\/pre>\n<p>02   28.09.2011             Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as<\/p>\n<p>                  learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.<\/p>\n<p>                            Petitioners are languishing in jail custody since<\/p>\n<p>                  19.06.2011 in a case registered under Sections 379\/34 of the<\/p>\n<p>                  Indian Penal Code and 39\/44 of Electricity Act.<\/p>\n<p>                            Allegedly, petitioners were running welding machines<\/p>\n<p>                  without having a valid electric connection and, accordingly, they<\/p>\n<p>                  caused damage to electricity department to the tune of Rs.<\/p>\n<p>                  2,80,320\/-.\n<\/p>\n<p>                            The contention of learned counsel for the petitioners is<\/p>\n<p>                  that the present case has been instituted under wrong sections and,<\/p>\n<p>                  as a matter of fact, in place of Sections 39\/44 of Electricity Act, it<\/p>\n<p>                  ought to have been mentioned as Section 135 of Electricity Act. It<\/p>\n<p>                  is further contended by him that seizure list does not bear the<\/p>\n<p>                  signatures of the petitioners and, as a matter of fact, petitioners<\/p>\n<p>                  were running welding machines through generator but officials of<\/p>\n<p>                  the electricity department lodged this false case with ulterior<\/p>\n<p>                  motive.\n<\/p>\n<p>                            Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as<\/p>\n<p>                  well as period of detention of the petitioners in jail custody, let the<\/p>\n<p>                  petitioners be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                               -2-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          10,000\/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount<\/p>\n<p>          each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in<\/p>\n<p>          connection with Buxar (M) P.S. Case No. 151 of 2011.<\/p>\n<pre>SHAHZAD                   (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, J)\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court &#8211; Orders Bechan Sharma &amp; Anr vs The State Of Bihar on 28 September, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31025 of 2011 1. Bechan Sharma 2. Santosh Sharma Both sons of Hanuman Sharma Versus The State Of Bihar &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- 02 28.09.2011 Heard learned counsel for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-patna-high-court-orders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bechan Sharma &amp; Anr vs The State Of Bihar on 28 September, 2011 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bechan-sharma-anr-vs-the-state-of-bihar-on-28-september-2011\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bechan Sharma &amp; 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