Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37780 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mahendra Dubey 2. Mantu Dubey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 12-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1) (xii) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of kidnapping the minor daughter of the informant. In 164 Cr.P.C. statement the victim got her age recorded as 18 years when the court has assessed as such where she has stated that she of her own married with Chandan Dubey. The petitioners are brothers of Chandan Dubey. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37780 of 2012 (2) dt.12-10-2012 2/2 event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Bhagalpur in connection with Kahalgaon (Ghogha OP) P.S. Case No. 252 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 366A

Statute Text:
Section 366A of the Indian Penal Code. Procuration of minor girl. Whoever, by any means whatsoever, induces any minor girl under the age of eighteen years to go from any place or to do any act with intent that such girl may be, or knowing that it is likely that she will be, forced or seduced to illicit intercourse with another person shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.