Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35793 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sanaulla 2. Arif 3. Afshar @ Afshar @ Afsar 4. Asraful .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-09-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of taking the son of the informant for labour employment when he did not return. The victim in his 164 Cr.P.C. statement has stated that petitioners took the victim to Madras for labour employment but there he was made captive but somehow he ran away. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that one Anjura Khatoon has filed Complaint Case No. 2517 of 2011 against one Safique who is brother-in-law of the informant and in the said complaint case petitioners were witnesses, hence as a retaliatory measure, the present Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35793 of 2012 (2) dt.20-09-2012 2 / 2 2 accusation has been levelled. It is further submitted that for the occurrence of 05.09.2011 the complaint was filed on 14.09.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 08.10.2011. It is orally submitted that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the fact that victim of his own claims to have returned, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection with Angarh P.S. Case No. 20 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.