Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19727 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Babita Devi 2. Kusum Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 23-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Fatuha P.S. Case No. 79 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City. It is alleged that the petitioners being the sisters-in-law (gotni) of the informant assaulted the husband of the informant and subsequently put him on fire on 18.02.2011 when the victim succumbed to the injuries on 09.03.2011. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners without being prejudiced by the order of this Court. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19727 of 2012 (3) dt.23-07-2012 2/2 Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 348

Statute Text:
Section 348 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongful confinement for the purpose of extorting confession or information, or of compelling restoration of property etc. Whoever wrongfully confines any person for the purpose of extorting from the person confined or any person interested in the person confined any confession or any information which may lead to the detection of an offence or misconduct, or for the purpose of constraining the person confined or any person interested in the person confined to restore or to cause the restoration of any property or valuable security or to satisfy any claim or demand, or to give information which may lead to the restoration of any property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.