Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15577 of 2012 ====================================================== Shailendra Raut .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-04-2012 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 against the petitioner being the Panchayat Mukhiya that he cut the embankment alongwith other villagers due to which water destroyed the crops of the informant’s village when protest was made petitioner resorted to firing. It is submitted that it was dispute between Mukhiyas of two villages when no injury has been caused to any one and it is submitted that the informant has retracted from his initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below, certified copy of comprise petition has been produced before this Court, let it be kept on record. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15577 of 2012 (2) dt.26-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, 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 Rahui P.S. Case No. 233 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Nalanda, Biharsharif, 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.