Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39295 of 2012 ====================================================== Rahul Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-10-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that when the informant along with other police personnel went to clear the road blockage of a procession during Shivratri then at the instigation of Rajesh Kumar and Manoj Kumar the mob attacked on the informant when the informant and his constable received injuries and the vehicle was damaged. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that specific accusation is against Rajesh Kumar and Manoj Kumar when accusation has been levelled against the mob. It is further submitted that petitioner has no criminal Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39295 of 2012 (2) dt.16-10-2012 2 / 2 2 antecedent. It appears that Manoj Kumar has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 4021 of 2010. This Court sees no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Mukama P.S. Case No. 31 of 2008, pending in the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Vth, Barh. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 189

Statute Text:
Section 189 of the Indian Penal Code. Threatening a public servant with injury to him or one in whom he is interested, to induce him to do or forbear to do any official act. Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any public servant, or to any person in whom he believes that public servant to be interested, for the purpose of inducing that public servant to do any act, or to forbear or delay to do any act, connected with the exercise of the public functions of such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.