Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29351 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Md. Danish 2. Shamshu 3. Roobi. 4. Lalu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the parents, brother and sister of the husband of the complainant are apprehending arrest in Complaint Case No. 241 of 2002/1937 of 2012 in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad. The basic accusation is of torture. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the complainant, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29351 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 2/2 accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (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.