Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8941 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Muzahid .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that three persons abducted the victim when this petitioner forcefully established physical relationship in the bathroom. It is submitted by learned Sr. counsel for the petitioner that for the occurrence of 13.06.2011, the FIR was lodged on 17.06.2011 and there are discrepancy between the FIR and 164 Cr.P.C. statement of the victim girl. In 164 Cr.P.C. statement, the victim girl got her age recorded as 21 years when the doctor assessed her age as 18-19 years when no injury was found. The delay in lodging the FIR has been explained by the prosecution side that some reconciliation was going on hence the FIR has not been lodged promptly. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8941 of 2012 (2) dt.27-03-2012 2/2 Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR and the fact that the medical opinion does not suggest the accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in connection with Jokihat (Mahalgaon) P.S. Case No. 150 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.