IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.15495 of 2011 Satish Kanpuria @ Bhaiji, son of late Biswanath Kanpuria, resident of Anand Chikitsalaya Road, P.S. Kotwali, Bhagalpur, District Bhagalpur. ----- Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar ------- Opp. Party ----------- 2 17.5.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner in connection with offences u/s 387 and other allied Sections of Indian Penal Code was earlier rejected by an order dated 26.3.2011 in Cr. Misc. No. 45078 of 2010. Counsel for the petitioner would submit that there is no specific allegation against the petitioner and that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case. This Court would however find that the petitioner is specifically named in a gang of five persons all of whom had sought to coerce the informant for extorting a costly mobile set. The fact that the petitioner was specifically named in the gang of five persons with direct allegation of 2 extortion would definitely not entitle him to be given privilege of anticipatory bail specially when nothing has been mentioned in the petition as with regard to the reason of his false implication in this case. The plea of the petitioner that he had some previous enmity with the informant is not at all born out from any documentary evidence and, therefore, mere verbal assertion of the learned counsel for the petitioner to this effect would not be sufficient for granting him anticipatory bail. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner, namely, Satish Kanpuria @ Bhaiji is hereby once again rejected. It is however made clear that if the petitioner surrenders and prays for grant of regular bail, the same shall be decided on its own merit without being prejudiced by this order rejecting his prayer for anticipatory bail. With the aforesaid observation this application is dismissed. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)