Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6656 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6656 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandra Shekhar Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.6720 of 2012 ====================================================== Vikram Prakash Patel @ Vikram @ Chhotu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. S.K.Manglam, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Md. Jahimuddin, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 06-03-2012 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] , 27 of the Arms Act and 3(1)(x) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of firing when no injury has been caused. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6656 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 petitioners that since the petitioners are neighbours of the master of the informant with whom petitioners have some dispute with one Pranav Kumar when this case has been filed. From FIR it appears that thrust of dispute is in between these petitioners and Pranav and the informant has been brought to the police station in order to take aid of the provisions of SC/ST Act. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, District - Patna in connection with Rupaspur P.S. Case No. 200 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.