Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43342 of 2012 ====================================================== Guddu Kumar S/O Kameshwar Rai R/O Village - Daulatpur, P.S. Bihta, District – Patna. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-12-2012 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 40(i) of the Bihar Minor Minerals Concession Rules, 1972. The informant being the employee of the Company who is authorized to issue Challan for carrying sand when the petitioner used to take 3-4 tractors of sand daily without giving payment and threat was also given by the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner himself is a licensee when a statement has been made in paragraph no. 13 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43342 of 2012 (2) dt.19-12-2012 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 Bihta P.S. Case No. 66 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 A.C.J.M., Danapur, Patna, 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: 385

Statute Text:
Section 385 of the Indian Penal Code. Putting or attempting to put in fear of injury, in order to commit extortion. Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion, puts any person in fear, or attempts to put any person in fear, of any injury, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.