Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13128 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ashok Kumar Singh S/O Indrashan Singh R/O Horil Chapra, P.S. Malahi, District - East Champaran. 2. Madhuri Singh W/O Ashok Kumar Singh R/O Horil Chapra, P.S. Malahi, District - East Champaran. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 16 17-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of investment by the informant in contract work when the share of profit was not given to the informant. Considering the nature of accusation, it is fit case for consideration of regular bail of the petitioners if they surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Chhatauni P.S. Case No. 38 of 2010 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Motihari. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13128 of 2012 (16) dt.17-12-201 2 / 22 2 With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 388

Statute Text:
Section 388 of the Indian Penal Code. Extortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 Years. Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of an accusation against that person or any other, of having committed or attempted to commit any offence punishable with death, or with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, or of having attempted to induce any other person to commit such offence, shall shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine; and, if the offence be one punishable under section 377 of this Code, may be punished with imprisonment for life.