Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8574 of 2012 ====================================================== Pusplal Kuer @ Pusplal Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 21-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that when the last right of the informant’s brother was being performed when Pramod took the father of informant and subsequently the gun shot firing was heard by the informant and his uncle when they were going towards the house of Pramod Singh and then they saw one Bhuttu Singh @ Niranjan Singh was driving a motorcycle and this petitioner was sitting in the back when in the middle one person appearing like the father of informant was sitting. Thereafter the informant saw the blood stained towel of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8574 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 2/3 his father where Ashok Singh was standing. Thereafter Pramod Singh filed away on a jeep. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the specific case of the informant is that the father of the informant was taken by Pramod Singh on a jeep when subsequently seeing this petitioner on a motorcycle when it was suspected by the informant that his father was one of the persons on the motorcycle whom the informant could not properly recognize, constitutes at best a case of suspicion. It is further submitted that the father of informant was an accused in an abduction case when five persons were abducted and this petitioner was witness in that case, hence the petitioner has been roped in the present case on suspicion. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation and others have been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 1634 of 2011, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his 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) with Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8574 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 3/3 two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge 3rd, Saran in connection with Panapur P.S. Case No. 54 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: 364

Statute Text:
Section 364 of the Indian Penal Code. Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person in order that such person may be murdered or may be so disposed of as to be put in danger of being murdered, shall be punished with imprisonment for life or rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.