Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11609 of 2012 ====================================================== Balraj Singh & Ors .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation of making protest against acquisition of land by N.T.P.C. and thereby obstructing the officials in discharging of their official duties and due to pelting stones injury has been caused. It is submitted that injury has been found to be simple. Considering the background in which protest was being made and accusation levelled against the mob, let the petitioners, Balraj Singh @ Baliraj Singh, Akshay Singh, Sachcha @ Shashikant, Mahendra Singh and Mantu Singh, be released on bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11609 of 2012 (2) dt.06-04-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Navinagar P.S. Case No. 191 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Aurangabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 327

Statute Text:
Section 327 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property or a valuable security, or to constrain to do anything which is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence. Whoever voluntarily causes hurt, for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer, or from any person interested in the sufferer, any property or valuable security, or of constraining the sufferer or any person interested in such sufferer to do anything which is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.