Kidnapping at Gunpoint Sufficient to Prove Threat Under Section 364A IPC, Life Sentence Upheld in UP Child Abduction Case: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court upheld the conviction and life imprisonment of two accused persons involved in the kidnapping of an eight-year-old child in Uttar Pradesh in the year 2003. The Court ruled that abducting a child at gunpoint itself satisfies the legal requirement of threat under Section 364A IPC, even if no separate verbal threat or explicit message is proved. The case arose from the abduction of a school-going child named…