Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5599 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Chandan Kumar Singh @ Chandan Kumar S/O Punit Singh Resident Of Mohalla- Belan Bazar (Bangali Tola), Police Station- Kasim Bazar, District- Munger .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 01-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that for non-payment of Rs. 20,000/- extortion money the petitioner caused injury on the chest of the son of the informant. The occurrence is of 11.01.2011 when the FIR was lodged on 03.02.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that subsequently the informant has retracted from his earlier version whereas the injured denied the accusation. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5599 of 2012 (2) dt.01-03-2012 2/2 Considering the delayed lodging of the case which clouds the bonafide of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with Kasim Bazar P.S. Case No. 33 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.