Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13207 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajesh Kumar Yadav & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-04-2012 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] . The accusation is of setting the house of the informant on fire due to non-payment of Rs. 200/- as a result of which tent’s clothes, blanket, chair and other materials were burnt worth Rs. 2,20,000/-. It is submitted that accusation was levelled due to partnership dispute between the parties when the informant has subsequently retracted from his initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. The statement has been made in paragraph no.11 of the petition that investigation is still Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13207 of 2012 (2) dt.13-04-2012 2 / 2 2 pending and the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Kundan Yadav, Gannu Kumar and Jitendra Kumar Nonia, 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 Ara Town P.S. Case No. 257 of 2006 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 C.J.M. Bhojpur at Ara, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Learned court below will positively cancel the bail of the petitioners if the petitioners default for three consecutive occasions during trial. U.K./- (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.