Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23067 of 2012 ====================================================== Murari Kushwaha .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the petitioner on the gun point took snap of the sister of the informant in objectionable position with the petitioner which was shown to the prospective bridegroom when sister of the informant was doubt to be married. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that photographs were not taken and supplied to the bridegroom of sister of the informant and subsequently the informant has retracted from his initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23067 of 2012 (2) dt.03-07-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Lauriya P.S. Case No. 94 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Bettiah, West Champaran, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted by the learned court below on acceptance by the informant that he has no objection in grant of bail to the petitioner. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 386

Statute Text:
Section 386 of the Indian Penal Code. extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt. Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt to that person or to any other, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.