Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5604 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Rajesh Singh S/O Late Ramsagar Singh Resident Of Village- Lakho, P.S.- Muffasil, District- Begusarai 2. Mahadev Singh S/O Late Bikho Singh Resident Of Village- Lakho, P.S.- Muffasil, District- Begusarai 3. Pankaj Chaudhary S/O Late Ram Saran Choudhary Resident Of Village- Diha, P.S.- S. Kamal, District- Begusarai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 29-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of intercepting the truck by unknown accused persons, made assault to the owner and snatching of Rs. 2,000/- as well as made demand of extortion. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the case was instituted in 2005 when the charge-sheet was submitted against others and investigation was closed and in 2011 without permission Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5604 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 2/2 of the court on the direction of the S.P. the investigation re-started, when it is alleged that one Raushan Yadav in his confession named these petitioners. Considering the nature of accusation that too after six years of the institution of the case, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Ballia P.S. Case No. 46 of 2005, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 384

Statute Text:
Section 384 of the Indian Penal Code. Extortion. Whoever commits extortion shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.