Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20656 of 2012 ====================================================== Dheeraj Kumar @ Munna Kumar, S/O Late Ram Chandra Singh, R/O Village - Berhna, Police Station - Barh, District – Patna. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== PRESENT: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.N. HUSSAIN ORDER 2 07-06-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Petitioner is an accused for offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that entire allegation is that petitioner went to the shop of the informant and gave him a mobile to talk and when the informant talked with a person on the other side of the mobile he was threatened with ouster from his house if he did not pay Rs.1.5 lacs to the petitioner. It is also clear from FIR that thereafter nothing happened as neither informant paid any amount nor he was ousted from the house concerned. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that entire allegation is absolutely Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20656 of 2012 (2) dt.07-06-2012 2 / 2 2 false and frivolous and he had been implicated on the basis of some hearsay evidence although he was not even named in the FIR nor any incriminating article has been recovered from his possession. Learned counsel for the petitioner also avers that petitioner has no criminal antecedents and he is a student going to appear in the Intermediate Examination of Bihar School Examination Board from S.N.A. College, Barh. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this petition is allowed. Let above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000.00 (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh, Patna in connection with Mokama P.S. Case No.46 of 2012. Sunil/- (S.N. Hussain, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 387

Statute Text:
Section 387 of the Indian Penal Code. Putting or attempting to put a person in fear of death or grievous hurt in order to commit extortion. Whoever in order to the committing of extortion, puts or attempts to put 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 seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.