Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15070 of 2012 ====================================================== Yagya Nand Pandey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 18-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Deputy Postmaster is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that in spite of sending advice for payment to the labourers of MANREGA scheme, the petitioner was demanding Rs. 50/- from each labourer. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the payment was to be made to the informant from Anwal Post Office whereas the petitioner was posted at Kopa Samahouta Post Office and the petitioner has only to send the advise for payment which he transmitted on 09.12.20111 and on the same day the payment was made when the FIR was lodged on 06.02.2012. Considering the fact that the payment was made prior to the lodging of the FIR, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15070 of 2012 (3) dt.18-05-2012 2/2 before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Kopa P.S. Case No. 17 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.