Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7169 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravi Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 10-09-2012 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] . The accusation is of kidnapping the daughter of the informant. In 164 Cr.P.C. statement the victim has named this petitioner when it is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim has love affair with the younger brother of this petitioner. To substantiate the same letters have been brought on record. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7169 of 2012 (4) dt.10-09-2012 2/2 period of six weeks from today in connection with Gopalganj P.S. Case No. 279 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.