Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10484 of 2012 (2) dt.03-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10484 of 2012 ====================================================== Lalti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-04-2012 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] . The accusation is of kidnapping the wife of the informant. It appears that the victim went in the company of the son of the petitioner on her own and subsequently it was alleged that the son of the petitioner took her to Kerala and established forceful physical relationship. It further appears that the informant retracted from the initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10484 of 2012 (2) dt.03-04-2012 each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran in connection with Manjhi P.S.Case No.21 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 4338(2)of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 366

Statute Text:
Section 366 of the Indian Penal Code. Kidnapping or abducting a woman to compel her marriage or to cause her defilement etc. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any woman with intent that she may be compelled, or knowing it to be likely that she will be compelled, to marry any person against her will, or in order that she may be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse, or knowing it to be likely that she will be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine; and whoever, by means of criminal intimidation as defined in this Code or of abuse of authority or any other method of compulsion, induces any woman to go from any place with intent that she may be, or knowing that it is likely that she will be, forced or seduced to illicit intercourse with another person shall also be punishable as aforesaid.