Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36908 of 2012 ====================================================== Birendra Jha S/O Late Jagdish Jha Resident Of Nonaura, P.S. Runni Saidpur, District Sitamarhi. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-09-2012 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] . The accusations are of entering into the house of the informant, assaulting the informant and his old mother and demanding extortion Rs. 50,000/- when Indrajeet Jha(not petitioner), took away the attaché of the informant’s wife containing ornaments. It is submitted that for petty dispute, accusation has been levelled. The statement has been made in paragraph no. 14 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36908 of 2012 (2) dt.27-09-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Runisaidpur P.S. Case No. 50 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Sitamarhi, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 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.