Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17472 of 2012 ====================================================== Bhushan Singh & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-05-2012 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 demanding extortion of Rs. 1,00,000/- from the informant and threatening was also given to kill the informant alongwith her husband in case of non-fulfillment of extortion demand when Rs. 20,000/- was paid to petitioner no. 1 Bhushan Singh. The accusation is also of locking the room in which materials were kept for construction of school building. It is submitted that for occurrence of 18.11.2011, F.I.R. was lodged on 23.11.2011 when the petitioner no.1 Bhushan Singh filed an application under R.T.I. with regard to misappropriation of money in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17472 of 2012 (2) dt.10-05-2012 2 / 2 2 construction of school building then on 23.11.2011 as a retaliatory measure the present case has been lodged and the statement has been made in paragraph no.13 of the petition that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Bhushan Singh, Ranjit Singh and Subodh Singh, 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 G.R. No. 1232 of 2011, arising out of Piparia P.S. Case No. 31 of 2011 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. Lakhisarai, 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: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.