Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16611 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Degan Singh Bhokta@Dharmbir Kr.@Dharambir Kumar 2. Lakhan Singh Bhogta @ Ram Lakhan Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in connection with Barachatti P.S. Case No. 226 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 27 of the Arms Act pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sherghati (Gaya). It is alleged that several persons entered into the house of the informant and they were trying to locate the informant and when the informant was not located, they kidnapped the informant’s son. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant has subsequently retracted from his initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. It appears that the father of petitioner no.2 has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 11586 of 2011. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16611 of 2012 (2) dt.04-05-2012 2/2 With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (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.