Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17088 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Raja Giri 2. Batoran Giri 3. Chhotan Giri 4. Ramadhar Giri 5. Shivadhari Giri 6. Gorakh Giri .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 09-05-2012 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] . It is alleged that informant’s husband went to attend some Yagya along with petitioners and others on 04.09.2006 but he did not return when the FIR was lodged on 11.12.2006. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that on 27.09.2006 petitioner no. 3 lodged complaint against the husband of the informant and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17088 of 2012 (2) dt.09-05-2012 2/2 others thereafter the present case has been lodged when during investigation accusation was found false and final form was submitted but on protest the cognizance has been taken on 13.01.2012. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR and the accusation being found false by the police, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with C.R. Case No. 752 of 2010, 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.