Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4149 of 2012 ====================================================== Bhushan Sharma & Ors .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-02-2012 Petitioners being parents and grand-parents of the daughter-in-law of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . The occurrence is of 24.06.2011 when the complaint was lodged on 26.06.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 02.08.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that maliciously the petitioners have been involved and the thrust of accusation is against Santosh, whereas the victim girl has transmitted an application through post to the Superintendent of Police, Begusarai that due to the torture inflicted by her parents she has left her house and has not Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4149 of 2012 (2) dt.08-02-2012 2 / 2 2 alleged anything against the petitioners. Considering the nature of accusation and the relationship between the parties and the advance age of the petitioners, let the petitioners namely 1. Bhushan Sharma 2. Manju Sharma 3. Bindeshwari Sharma @ Bindeshwari Mistri 4. Puniya Devi, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Begusarai Muffasil P.S. Case No. 239 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 365

Statute Text:
Section 365 of the Indian Penal Code. Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person with intent to cause that person to be secretly and wrongfully confined, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.