Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12461 of 2012 (2) dt.09-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12461 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Swarath Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 09.04.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State assisted by learned counsel for the informant. Petitioner being husband of the informant is in jail custody since 11.12.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Admittedly, marriage of the petitioner was solemnized 25 years ago with the informant and it appears from the contents of the first information report that dispute arose between the parties on account of second wife of the petitioner. Learned counsel for the informant submits that informant is still ready to lead her conjugal life with the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Ram Swarath Mahto, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in Tajpur (Pusa) P.S. Case no. 415/2011. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,J)

Applicable IPC Section: 383

Statute Text:
Section 383 of the Indian Penal Code. None. Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person, or to any other, and thereby dishonestly induces the person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property, or valuable security or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into a valuable security, commits "extortion".