Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22970 of 2012 ====================================================== Anandi Anand @ Firoz @ Anand .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 02-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping the son of the informant. 164 Cr.P.C. statement reflects the complicity of the petitioner also. In the circumstances, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner in connection with Hajipur Town P.S. Case No. 192 of 2012 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 364A

Statute Text:
Section 364A of the Indian Penal Code. Kidnapping for ransom, etc. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or keeps a person in detention after such kidnapping or abduction, and threatens to cause death or hurt to such person, or by his conduct gives rise to a reasonable apprehension that such person may be put to death or hurt, or causes hurt or death to such person in order to compel the Government or any foreign State or international inter-governmental organisation or any other person to do or abstain from doing any act or to pay a ransom, shall be punishable with death or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.