Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17088 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Raja Giri 2. Batoran Giri 3. Chhotan Giri 4. Ramadhar Giri 5. Shivadhari Giri 6. Gorakh Giri .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 09-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that informant’s husband went to attend some Yagya along with petitioners and others on 04.09.2006 but he did not return when the FIR was lodged on 11.12.2006. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that on 27.09.2006 petitioner no. 3 lodged complaint against the husband of the informant and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17088 of 2012 (2) dt.09-05-2012 2/2 others thereafter the present case has been lodged when during investigation accusation was found false and final form was submitted but on protest the cognizance has been taken on 13.01.2012. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR and the accusation being found false by the police, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with C.R. Case No. 752 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 364A

Statute Text:
Section 364A of the Indian Penal Code. Kidnapping for ransom, etc. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or keeps a person in detention after such kidnapping or abduction, and threatens to cause death or hurt to such person, or by his conduct gives rise to a reasonable apprehension that such person may be put to death or hurt, or causes hurt or death to such person in order to compel the Government or any foreign State or international inter-governmental organisation or any other person to do or abstain from doing any act or to pay a ransom, shall be punishable with death or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.