Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18211 of 2012 ====================================================== Sabnam Khatoon & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-05-2012 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] and 3(1)(x) of S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities)Act. The accusations are of abusing the informant at his door for grazing out the wheat crops by she- goad and committing theft. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners’ sides lodged the case against the informant at earlier point of time being Sanhoula P.S. Case No. 01 of 2012 then the present case has been lodged. Considering the background in which accusation has been levelled and the fact that case has been lodged at earlier point of time by the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18211 of 2012 (2) dt.15-05-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners sides against the informant, let the petitioners, Sabnam Khatoon, Nasima Khatoon, Aisa Khatoon, Nurjahan Khatoon and Md. Salamat, 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 Sanhoula P.S. Case No. 02 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 C.J.M. Bhagalpur, 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.