Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23931 of 2012 ====================================================== Gautam Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-07-2012 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 entering into the bus, assaulted the driver and cleaner, taking away the bus and damaging the bus, thereafter committing theft of colour T.V., D.V.D, battery etc. of the bus. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent and other accused Dhananjay Bhardwaj has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 14225 of 2010. I see no reason for learned court below Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23931 of 2012 (2) dt.27-07-2012 2/2 not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Ara Muffasil P.S. Case No. 24 of 2010 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara. 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: 363

Statute Text:
Section 363 of the Indian Penal Code. Kidnapping. Whoever kidnaps any person from India or from lawful guardianship, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.