Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17545 of 2012 ====================================================== Kayum .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 11-05-2012 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] . It is alleged that the informant went to Patna on 27.09.2011 leaving three minor daughters in her house when two daughters were threatened and 3rd daughter Alia Praveen was tied and was taken in the Bolero vehicle along with ornaments and other articles of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that specific accusation is against Muzaffar Imam. It is further submitted that Muzaffar Imam son of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17545 of 2012 (2) dt.11-05-2012 2/2 this petitioner, later on, married with Alia Praveen, who is major and for the occurrence of 27.09.2011 the complaint was lodged on 15.10.2011 which came to be registered police case on 01.11.2011. Considering the delayed lodging of the case and the fact that thrust of accusation is against Muzaffar, 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 bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Jamo Bazar P.S. Case No. 80 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.