Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7095 of 2012 (2) dt.12-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7095 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Hasmat Khan & 2. Faiyaz Khan @ P.D.Khan. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of entering the informant’s house and looted the attache, ornaments and other articles and she raised alarm and identified the accused persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the seized articles were not recovered from the possession of the petitioners. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let the above named two petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their 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)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7095 of 2012 (2) dt.12-03-2012 Siwan in Siwan Mufassil P.S.case No.287 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2)of the Cr.P.C. B.Kr./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 386

Statute Text:
Section 386 of the Indian Penal Code. extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt. Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt to that person or to any other, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.