Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43753 of 2012 ====================================================== Anil Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-12-2012 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] and 3(1)(x) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act). It is alleged that the informant being the Headmaster of the Middle School, Pachaura, was abused by calling caste name when extortion Rs. 10,000/- was demanded and he was also assaulted. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is a member of School Education Committee and his wife is the Panchayat Mukhiya when complaint was made against the Headmaster by Up-Sarpanch and other co-villagers when an enquiry was conducted by the District Programme Officer when it was found that the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43753 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 2 / 2 2 informant being the headmaster indicted though an enquiry report was subsequent to lodging of the present case in order to bring the said enquiry, the present case was lodged with frivolous accusation when for occurrence of 17.09.2012, F.I.R. was registered on 22.09.2012. Considering the aforesaid submissions in the background in which the informant lodged the present case, let the 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 Harnaut P.S. Case No. 215 of 2012 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. Nalanda at Biharsharif, 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: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.