Court elaborately considered the scope and purport of Section 364A including the historical background. After noticing the earlier cases, this Court laid down that section 364A has three distinct components. In Paragraph 25, following was laid down with regard to distinct components of Section 364A:-
“25. …………….Section 364-A IPC has three distinct components viz. (i) the person concerned kidnaps or abducts or keeps the victim in detention after kidnapping or abduction; (ii) threatens to cause death or hurt or causes apprehension of death or hurt or actually hurts or causes death; and (iii) the kidnapping, abduction or detention and the threats of death or hurt, apprehension for such death or hurt or actual death or hurt is caused to coerce the person concerned or someone else to do something or to forbear from doing something or to pay ransom……………………”
Vikram Singh alias Vicky and Anr. Vs. Union of India and Ors., (2015) 9 SCC 502
