Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13412 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramshubhag Paswan @ Ram Subhay Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping the married daughter of the informant. In 164 Cr.P.C. statement, the victim girl got her age recorded as 19 years when the court assessed her age as 17 years where she admits that she of her own married with Rakesh Paswan and has returned home of her own. Considering the 164 Cr.P.C. statement of the victim girl, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of 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 each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13412 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2/2 Magistrate, Barh in connection with Mokama P.S. Case No. 183 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 368

Statute Text:
Section 368 of the Indian Penal Code. Concealing or keeping in confinement a kidnapped person. Whoever, knowing that any person has been kidnapped or has been abducted, wrongfully conceals or confines such person, shall be punished in the same manner as if he had kidnapped or abducted such person with the same intention or knowledge, or for the same purpose as that with or for which he conceals or detains such person in confinement.