Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.45124 of 2011 Lalit Vijay Paswan @ Lalit Vijay Kumar Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 6.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since August, 2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of abducting the minor daughter though in statement under section 164 Cr.P.C. the victim has stated that four persons including the petitioner took the victim by force to Delhi but from the statement, it appears that she stayed in the company of accused persons for a month but she has not alleged any misbehaviour. The very statement under section 164 Cr.P.C. clouds the conduct of the victim also. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M. Begusarai in Samho P.S. Case No. 16 of 2011. Anil/ ( 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.