Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22082 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kumar Sah & Ors. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 29-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping the minor daughter of the informant. The specific accusation is against Shambhu Sah and Sanjay Sah whereas it is alleged that these petitioners also assisted the main accused persons in kidnapping the victim. The victim is still traceless. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners Raj Kumar Sah, Jaikali Devi, Jitendra Sah, Satyendra Sah, Anita Devi and Meera Kumari in connection with Parihar Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22082 of 2012 (3) dt.29-08-2012 2 / 2 2 P.S. Case No. 19 of 2012 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Sitamarhi. The anticipatory bail application of the petitioners is rejected. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. U.K./- (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.