Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10383 of 2012 ====================================================== Alimuddin .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-04-2012 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 S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities)Act. The accusation is of abusing the informant by calling caste name against three F.I.R. named accused persons for deposing in some other case and making assault with fists and slaps. The specific accusation against the petitioner is of taking Rs. 250/- from the pocket of the informant. It is submitted that accusation under S.C./S.T. is not specific against the petitioner and for occurrence of 30.07.2011 F.I.R. was lodged 02.08.2011. Considering delayed lodging of F.I.R. which Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10383 of 2012 (2) dt.02-04-2012 2 / 2 2 clouds the bonafide of accusation, 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 Begusarai SC/ST P.S. Case No. 104 of 2011 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. Begusarai, 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: 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.