Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37580 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandan Giri @ Chandan Kumar Giri .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner being the grand-son of the informant alleged to have given milk with some intoxicant to the informant and committed theft of silver coin, gold ring, gun, cartridges and cheque book subsequently it is alleged that the stolen articles including the gun were returned but two cheques of Rs. 60,000/- each were got signed by the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that since the informant is contesting Partition Suit No. 57 of 2011, hence the accusation has been levelled. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that both the cheques have been encashed. The petitioner undertakes to deposit Rs. 1,20,000/- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37580 of 2012 (2) dt.03-10-2012 2/2 before the learned court below within a period of four months which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme in connection with the present case which will be subject to the result of the present case. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Purushottampur P.S. Case No. 15 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be provisionally accepted till deposit of the aforesaid amount. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 389

Statute Text:
Section 389 of the Indian Penal Code. Putting a person in fear of accusation of an offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 Years in order to commit extortion. Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion, puts or attempts to put any person in fear of an accusation, against that person or any other, of having committed, or attempted to commit, an offence punishable with death or with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine; and, if the offence be punishable under section 377 of this Code, may be punished with imprisonment for life.