Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35522 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramod Mahto @ Pramod Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 09-10-2012 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] . Subsequently [STATUTE] was also added. The accusation is of kidnapping of the cousin brother of the informant. The FIR was lodged against unknown. The name of the petitioner sprang up during investigation of the supervising authority after nine months of the occurrence when it is alleged that one Rubi Kumari, who was seen with the victim sometime after the occurrence talked with this petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35522 of 2012 (3) dt.09-10-2012 2/2 petitioner that with regard to the petitioner the investigation is till pending. It appears that Sharwan Yadav and Anil Kewat have been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 25963 of 2008 and 28824 of 2008. This Court sees no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Nawada Town P.S. Case No. 155 of 2007 pending in the court of learned CJM, Nawada. It is expected from the learned court below to dispose of the regular bail application of the petitioner preferably on same day. With the aforesaid observation, 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: 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.