Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4742 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Arun Singh S/O Late Shivnandan Sharma R/O.- Mohalla- Mainpura, P.S.- Pataliputra, District- Patna .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16.02.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the F.I.R. named accused persons, including the petitioner, after making hole in the wall of the house of the informant, took away the household articles and gave life threatening in case of non-payment of extortion amount of Rs.2,00,000/- (Two lakhs). It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner and his brothers have been implicated since they along with the Mukhiya and Ward Member made written complaint on 03.09.2011 before Officer-in- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4742 of 2012 (2) dt.16-02-2012 2 / 3 2 charge of Patliputra P.S., as well as the S.S.P., Patna against the informant for blocking the public road by constructing a wall, which resulted into initiation of 107 Cr.P.C. and 133 Cr.P.C. proceedings against the informant hence as a retaliating measure, the present accusation. It is further submitted that most of the cases lodged against the petitioner are at the behest of his agnates, when the petitioner was made accused in Phulwari (Janipur) P.S. Case No. 160 of 2005, as one of the suspects at the behest of his agnates when the petitioner was granted bail by this Hon’ble Court. Considering the fact that the present accusation has been levelled in the background of serious land dispute when at the behest of the petitioner 107 and 133 Cr.P.C. proceedings were initiated against the informant and other similarly situated accused has been granted anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4742 of 2012 (2) dt.16-02-2012 3 / 3 3 Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Patliputra P.S. Case No. 191 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: 384

Statute Text:
Section 384 of the Indian Penal Code. Extortion. Whoever commits extortion shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.