Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18277 of 2012 ====================================================== Sunil Rai @ Sunil Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in connection with Danapur P.S. Case No. 43 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna. The extortion demand was made from the informant through phone by one Makhna @ Ramesh Kumar, subsequently, three persons were apprehended and three managed to flee away. One of the apprehended accused Makhna @ Ramesh Kumar confessed that the petitioner was one of the accomplice. A statement has been made that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that other similarly situated accused person has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 11294 of 2012. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18277 of 2012 (2) dt.15-05-2012 2/2 I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 386

Statute Text:
Section 386 of the Indian Penal Code. extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt. Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt to that person or to any other, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.