Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29346 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravin Giri @ Ravindra Giri .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the nephew of the informant is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of demanding Rs. 1,00,000/- as extortion. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that in the background of the land dispute, the accusation has been levelled and a statement has been made in para 14 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. It is further submitted that the informant has subsequently, retracted from his initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29346 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 2/2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dalasingh Sarai, Samastipur in connection with Vidyapati Nagar P.S. Case No. 27 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.