Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9954 of 2012 ====================================================== Manish Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 04-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of giving life threatening and demanding extortion. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the occurrence of 05.04.2006 the FIR was lodged on 30.07.2006 when the petitioner was not named in the FIR. The petitioner is not contacted with the alleged phone through which the demand was made. It is further submitted that two other charge-sheeted accused have already been acquitted. The charge-sheet was submitted in 2009. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9954 of 2012 (2) dt.04-04-2012 2/2 In view of this Court, the facts constitutes a good ground for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Raj Nagar P.S. Case No. 113 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhubani. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 386

Statute Text:
Section 386 of the Indian Penal Code. extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt. Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt to that person or to any other, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.