Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18420 of 2012 ====================================================== Rambabu Raut .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-06-2012 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] . It is alleged that the informant’s son was taken to Delhi by the petitioner on 03.03.199 as domestic help but for sometime money was send to the informant and thereafter he stopped sending money when the informant came to know that her son went missing since 2000. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that even assuming the accusation no case under [STATUTE] is made out and the cognizance has been on 22.09.2009. This Court is not inclined to interfere only because the case was instituted in 2004, but since the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18420 of 2012 (2) dt.27-06-2012 2/2 cognizance has been taken on 22.09.2009 it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Bajpatii P.S. Case No. 28 of 2004 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Pupri at Sitamarhi. 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.