Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37876 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Manjoor Alam 2. Vidya Prasad Singh. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of entering into the office of Assistant Electrical Engineer and misbehaving with the staff and also threatening the officials for not lodging the case. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners were not named in the FIR when the petitioners’ side earlier also lodged a case against the informant and others. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37876 of 2012 (2) dt.04-10-2012 2/2 connection with Gopalganj P.S. Case No. 30 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.