Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22812 of 2012 ====================================================== Newa Lal Mahto & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-07-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 27 of the Arms Act. Accusation is of making assault to the informant, his wife, daughter and uncle. The specific accusation of firing is against Prakash Mahto who is not petitioner before this Court, when it was alleged that informant’s daughter suffered fracture injury in the hand and for realization of animals of the informant a demand of Rs. 2000/- was made. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that injuries to the informant, his wife and daughter have been found to be simple, caused by hard and blunt substance when accusation against the petitioners is not specific. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22812 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Newa Lal Mahto 2. Manoj Kumar 3. Arjun Mahto, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Mednichauki P.S. Case No. 19 of 2012. Shageer/- (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.