Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24550 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Imteyaz @ Md. Imteyaz @ Chotoo .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-07-2012 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] . The accusation is of kidnapping the minor daughter of the informant. It is submitted that the petitioner has performed marriage with the victim girl and they have a child also. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for three months in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kotwali (Tilkamanjhi) P.S. Case No. 773 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24550 of 2012 (2) dt.20-07-2012 2 / 2 2 each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Bhagalpur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Petitioner undertakes that he will produce the victim girl before the learned court below on 06.08.2012 when the statement of the victim girl will be recorded by the learned court below and if the victim girl admits that she of her own married with the petitioner then the provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned court below. U.K./- (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.