Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8031 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Singh @ Ajay Singh Akela .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 5 11-05-2012 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 25(1- B)A and 26 of the Arms Act. The accusation is of collecting money from the truckers when one Dharmendra Kumar Rai was apprehended from whom a loaded country made pistol alongwith live cartridges were recovered who named this petitioner as his accomplish who fled away from place of occurrence. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was not apprehended from the place of occurrence and there is no accusation levelled by the truckers of collecting money. It is submitted by learned A.P.P. appearing for the State that the petitioner is involved in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8031 of 2012 (5) dt.11-05-2012 2 / 2 2 other case also and the petitioner previously also used to collect money. Considering the fact that on the date of alleged occurrence, the petitioner was not found collecting money and apprehended accused Dharmendra Kumar Rai has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 40725 of 2011, this Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Durgawati P.S. Case No. 103 of 2011 (G.R. No. 1268 of 2011) pending in the court of the learned C.J. M., Bhabua( Kaimur). With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.