Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16764 of 2012 ====================================================== Sunil Kumar .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-05-2012 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] . The accusations are of demanding extortion Rs. 5,000/-,making assault and subsequently snatched gold chain from the neck of informant. It is submitted that the petitioner is an Assistant Teacher in the school where the wife of informant is the headmistress and there is serious dispute between the petitioner and the headmistress when the petitioner has challenged appointment of informant’s wife and for which informant’s wife has also lodged criminal case. Considering the strained relationship between the parties from before which clouds the bonafide of accusation, let the petitioner, above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16764 of 2012 (2) dt.08-05-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Nagarnausa P.S. Case No. 04 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M., Hilsa, District-Nalanda, 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: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.