Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43887 of 2011 Banti Kumar @ Manish Kumar Versus The State Of Bihar -------- 02/ 13.01.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is not named in the first information report and he is in jail custody since 9.8.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Name of the petitioner came in confessional statement of co-accused Manish Kumar Singh who was found using mobile set of the victim boy in course of investigation and it appears from perusal of the impugned order that except the aforesaid confessional statement of co-accused Manish Kumar Singh, there is nothing against the petitioner. Accordingly, petitioner, Banti Kumar @ Manish Kumar, is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in Kahalgaon P.S. Case no. 242/2011. shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.