Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11333 of 2012 ====================================================== Satyendra Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being agnate of the informant is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of making assault with the butt of pistol and demanding extortion. It is submitted that there is no specific accusation of assault and no case under [STATUTE] is made out. It is further submitted that litigation is going on between the parties with regard to the land in which the school is situated. Considering the accusation being made in the background of litigation between the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11333 of 2012 (2) dt.05-04-2012 2 / 2 2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Mithanpura P.S. Case No. 127 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 387

Statute Text:
Section 387 of the Indian Penal Code. Putting or attempting to put a person in fear of death or grievous hurt in order to commit extortion. Whoever in order to the committing of extortion, puts or attempts to put 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 seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.