Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31038 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ram Narayan Sah 2. Shiv Narayan Sah 3. Rajesh Sah 4. Rakesh Sah 5. Mishri Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-08-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that son of the informant went missing when suspicion of kidnapping was raised against the petitioners also in the First Information Report. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that earlier the informant was an accused in the kidnapping case of the father of the petitioner No.1 and during investigation the accusation was found false and final form was submitted, but differing with the same, cognizance has been taken. It further submitted that civil dispute is also going on between the parties. It is orally submitted that petitioners have Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31038 of 2012 (2) dt.30-08-2012 2 / 2 2 no criminal antecedent. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the victim in his 164 Cr.P.C. statement has supported the accusation against the petitioners. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation in the background of litigated relationship between the parties when accusation was found false by the police during investigation, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, West Champaran at Bettiah in connection with Jogapatti(Sanichari) P.S. Case No. 293 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.