Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23794 of 2012 ====================================================== Devi Lal Singh & Ors .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the accused persons made assault to the informant when the police went to arrest Nagendra Singh scuffle took place between the police and accused persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that earlier 144 Cr. P.C. proceeding was initiated between the petitioners and the informant which was made absolute against the informant. The wife of petitioner no.1 Devi Lal Singh has also lodged Didarganj P.S. Case No. 136 of 2011 against the informant in which petitioners were witnesses. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23794 of 2012 (2) dt.17-07-2012 2 / 2 2 It is further submitted that injuries have been found to be simple. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners Devi Lal Singh, Ashok Kumar, Ramesh Kumar @ Babloo, Arun Singh, Ram Dayal Singh and Akhilesh Kumar 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 Didarganj P.S. Case No. 37 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M., Patna City, 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.