Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2571 of 2012 (2) dt.25-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2571 of 2012 ====================================================== Bahoran Bhagat & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 25-01-2012 Heard Mr. Ravi Bhushan Verma, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. Amir Alam learned counsel for the informant and counsel for the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is submitted that no specific accusation of assault is against the petitioners and initially two persons were charge sheeted who have been granted bail but it appears that case was instituted in 2007 on the that ground alone, this Court is not inclined to interfere. However, it appears that others have been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. Nos.21067 of 2010 and 11939 of 2010, this Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2571 of 2012 (2) dt.25-01-2012 provided the petitioners surrender and pray for regular bail within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Barharia P.S. Case No. 35 of 2007 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Siwan. With this observation, the anticipatory bail application of petitioners is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 506

Statute Text:
Section 506 of the Indian Penal Code. Criminal intimidation. Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; If threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, etc — and if the threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the destruction of any property by fire, or to cause an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life, of with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or to impute unchastity to a woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.