Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23351 of 2012 ====================================================== Dhananjay Bind & Ors .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping Kiran Devi wife of the informant on the point of fire arm. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim is married with petitioner no.1 Dhananjay Bind and she appeared before the learned court below and accepted this fact which gets reflected from the impugned order also. Subsequently, the informant has retracted from his initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Dhananjay Bind, Anjani Bind @ Anjani Kumar and Shashi Bind be released on bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23351 of 2012 (2) dt.05-07-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 83 of 2011 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 C.J.M. Kaimur at Bhabhua, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 498

Statute Text:
Section 498 of the Indian Penal Code. Enticing or taking away or detaining with a criminal intent a married woman. Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from any person having the care of her on behalf of that man, with intent that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.