Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6922 of 2012 ====================================================== Sk. Razzak & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that informant purchased the land for valid consideration money when the petitioners’ side entered on the land, demanded Rs. 1,00,000/- as extortion to allow the informant’s side to cultivate the land, made assault and took away bundles of harvested paddy crops. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that initially the Bataidari Case No. 51 of 2007 was filed by the petitioners’ side with regard to the land in question. Thereafter Section 144 Cr.P.C. proceeding was also initiated vide Case No. 4M of 2008 and thereafter when the informant’s side could not get relief in Bataidari case and under Section 144 Cr.P.C. proceeding then this frivolous case has been lodged. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6922 of 2012 (2) dt.13-03-2012 2 / 2 2 The litigation with regard to the land from before clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Sk. Razzak 2. Sk. Sazzad 3. Sk. Mustkim 4. Sk. Nijamuddin 5. Md. Parwez Alam 6. Md. Tawrez Alam 7. Md. Shahnawaz @ Md. Shahnawaz Alam 8. Md. Sarwar Alam 9. Md. Guddu, 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, Katihar in connection with Kadwa P.S. Case No. 245 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.