Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.47366 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.47366 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Md. Alam @ Alam 2. Md. Naimuddin @ Naimuddin .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 18-12-2012 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 accusation against the petitioners is of snatching 201 coupons which were being distributed by the Panchayat representatives and they obstructed informant in discharge of official duty. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that one Rabina Khatoon lodged Complaint Case No. 2273 of 2012 against the informant on 06.08.2012 and three days thereafter the present case has been lodged. In view of this Court, it is a case for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.47366 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 consideration of regular bail, if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Kadwa (Balia-Belon) P.S. Case No. 255 of 2012 pending in the court of learned CJM, Katihar. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 506

Statute Text:
Section 506 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal intimidation. Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; If threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, etc — and if the threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the destruction of any property by fire, or to cause an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life, of with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or to impute unchastity to a woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.