Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3457 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravindra Kumar Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the uncle-in-law of the informant is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s husband was enticed away by this petitioner three years prior to lodging of the case who is in Jharkhand Police and now the husband has conveyed to the informant that he is being forced to execute the sale deed with regard to two katha land from the share of the father of the informant then only informant’s husband will be allowed to return home. The levelling of accusation after three years since the victim went in the company of the petitioner clouds the bona Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3457 of 2012 (2) dt.02-02-2012 2 / 2 2 fide of the accusation. 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 twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Jehanabad P.S. Case No. 283 of 2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 374

Statute Text:
Section 374 of the Indian Penal Code. Unlawful compulsory labour. Whoever unlawfully compels any person to labour against the will of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.