Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29640 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shiv Shankar Nath Ojha @ Shivji Ojha 2. Rajni Kant Ojha 3. Srikant Ojha 4. Shanti Kumari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the brother, nephew and niece of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping the informant for ransom and obtaining the signature on plain paper. The informant claimed to have got released subsequently of his own. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that in the background of family dispute the accusation has been levelled. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29640 of 2012 (2) dt.10-09-2012 2/2 named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj in connection with Natwar P.S. Case No. 11 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.