Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3493 of 2012 ====================================================== Guriya Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of abducting the daughter of the informant. The occurrence took place on 12.09.2011 when the F.I.R. was lodged on 16.09.2011. It appears that at Hosiarpur, the victim filed an application on 29.09.2011 for providing police protection since she married with Pankaj, there she did not named the petitioner. Though, in 164 Cr.P.C. statement, the victim has named this petitioner to have assisted the main accused Pankaj in committing offence. The medical report suggests that the victim was pregnant. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3493 of 2012 (2) dt.02-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the petition of the victim when the protection was given by Hosiarpur court and the fact that the thrust of accusation is against Pankaj, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Dighwara P.S. Case No. 152 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. Amrendra/- (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.