Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34072 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Vimli Devi 2. Satvir Mahto 3. Vijendra Mahto 4. Pato Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-09-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 3(1)(X)(XI) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusations are of making assault and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for a petty dispute the accusation has been levelled when the accusation under S.C. & S.T. Act has not been committed in public view. There is no injury report on record. A statement has been made in para 14 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34072 of 2012 (2) dt.03-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Sheikhpura S.C./S.T. P.S. Case No. 27 of 2012. Shageer/- (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.