Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37243 of 2012 ====================================================== Kulanand Mandal .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 11-10-2012 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] . It is alleged that the petitioner used to deposit the premium of the LIC policy when the petitioner given forged receipts to the informant and petitioner borrowed Rs.73,450/- from the informant when the petitioner given his motorcycle to the informant and assured to make payment of Rs.40,000/- in four months, when the money was not returned. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that with the FIR no forged LIC receipt was submitted and it was the informant who taken the motorcycle but did not make the payment of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37243 of 2012 (2) dt.11-10-2012 2/2 consideration money and the wife of the petitioner has lodged Complaint Case No. 1195 of 2012 against the informant. A statement has been made in para 13 that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Katihar in connection with Katihar Town P.S. Case No. 322 of 2012, 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.