Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31889 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-09-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of kidnapping minor daughter of the informant for performance of marriage. Subsequently the victim was recovered who disclosed in her 164 Cr.P.C. statement that the petitioner and one Umesh Paswan for the purposes of marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that co-accused Umesh Paswan after being treated juvenile, has been granted bail. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Sasaram Agarer P.S. Case No. 289 of 2012, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31889 of 2012 (2) dt.06-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Magistrate, Rohtas, Sasaram. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.