Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27813 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Uma Pandit 2. Thakur Pandit. 3. Shyam Sunder Pandit. 4. Ram Swroop Pandit. 5. Horil Pandit @ Dorik Pandit. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping the brother of the complainant in the year 1996 when Complaint Case No. 560 of 1998 was filed which was subsequently transferred to the police when during investigation the accusation was found false when the final form was accepted which was challenged in revision and in pursuance to the revisional order, the cognizance has been taken. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim has returned from Delhi. Considering the delayed lodging of the case and the fact that during investigation, the accusation was found false, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27813 of 2012 (2) dt.07-08-2012 2/2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamui in connection with Complaint-cum-Protest Case No. 1038C of 2008, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.