Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8651 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Gopal Shukla .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner was not named in the FIR but during investigation it transpires that the victim was kept for two days in the house of the petitioner. Considering the fact that case was instituted in the year, 2002, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the petitioner surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Navanagar P.S. Case No. 38 of 2002, Sessions Trial No. 208 of 2002 pending in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8651 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2/2 court of learned Additional Sessions Judge F.T.C. IV, Buxar when the learned court below will consider the regular bail prayer of the petitioner. This application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.