Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39974 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Habibul Khan @ Hasibul Khan & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 21-11-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioners came at the instruction site of the informant and demanded extortion of Rs. 5,00,000/ when Rs.35000/- was snatched and life threatening was given for payment of Rs. 5,00,000/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that part of the land in which the construction was being done was purchased by the petitioners’ side and for the sake of having land dispute, the accusation has been levelled. A statement has been made in para 14 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Md. Habibul Khan @ Hasibul Khan 2. Md. Azim Khan 3. Md. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39974 of 2012 (3) dt.21-11-2012 2 / 2 2 Azad @ Md. Azad Khan, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Saharsa in connection with Saharsa P.S. Case No. 88 of 2012. Shageer/- (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.