Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.46731 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Singh @ Ashok Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-12-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the F.I.R. named accused persons, including the petitioner, after making hole in the wall of the house of the informant, took away the household articles and gave life threatening in case of non-payment of extortion amount of Rs. 2,00,000/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner and other F.I.R. named accused persons made a complaint against the informant before the Officer-in-Charge of Patliputra P.S. as well as the S.S.P., Patna for blocking the public road by constructing a wall, which resulted into initiation of 107 Cr.P.C. and 133 Cr.P.C. proceedings against the informant, hence as a retaliatory Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.46731 of 2012 (2) dt.12-12-2012 2 / 2 2 measure, the present case has been lodged. Considering the accusation being levelled in the background of litigated relationship, let the petitioner namely Ashok Singh @ Ashok Kumar, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Patliputra P.S. Case No. 191 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 384

Statute Text:
Section 384 of the Indian Penal Code. Extortion. Whoever commits extortion shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.