offence punishable under Section
364-A Indian Penal Code (" IPC " - for short). By a separate order
passed on the same date ... Indian Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 1995 (Act No.24 of
1995) with effect from 26.5.1995. Section 2 thereof relates to
amendment of Section 364-A
appropriate to reproduce Section 364-A of IPC.
364-A. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or keeps a person in detention after ... ransom" introduced Section 364-A vide Act No. 42 of 1993 as applicable with effect from 22.5.1993. Section 364-A as added
guilty
and convicted for the offence punishable under Section 364-A of the
Indian Penal Code, 1860 (' IPC '-for short ... under
Section 364-A IPC can be detailed as under:-
(a)(i) kidnaps or abducts any person; or
(ii) keeps a person
Civil
Lines, Amritsar under Section 364 / 34 of the Indian Penal Code,
1860 ( IPC for short) and Section 25 of the Arms ... provision has been added in the Code w.e.f.
26.5.1995. Prior to introducing of Section 364-A IPC, only provision
for punishment
petitioners seek a writ of certiorari to strike down
Section 364-A of the Indian Penal Code inserted ... Section 364-A in the year 1993. It
necessarily implies that the plea now sought to be raised that Section
364-A IPC
364-A IPC, which reads as under:
"364-A. Kidnapping for ransom, etc. - Whoever kidnaps
or abducts any person or keeps a ... recorded under the said section. The first
essential condition as incorporated under Section 364-A IPC is "whoever
kidnaps or abducts
commission of offence punishable under
Sections 364-A, 365 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code ... basis of which a formal FIR No.198 dated
27.8.2007 under Sections 364-A / 365 / 368 / 34 IPC was registered at Police
Station
challan was presented and charges were
framed under Sections 364-A , 506 read with Section 34 IPC against the
accused persons vide order ... petitioner can be charged under Section 506
read with Section 34 IPC and not under Section 364-A IPC.
Learned State
dated 19.01.2005, under Sections 364, 302
read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (' IPC ' for short) of Police
Station ... commission of offences
punishable under Sections 364-A IPC, 302 IPC read with Section 34 IPC and
sentenced
demanded a ransom of Rs.30 lacs. So, the offence on the face of it
falls within the ambit of Section 364-A IPC ... 364-A IPC and as such the conviction of the
appellant under Section 364 IPC, which is a lessor offence, stands
