Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5134 of 2012 ====================================================== Parshuram Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping the grand daughter and grand son of the informant. Subsequently the grand son returned. In 164 Cr.P.C. statement he said that the actual kidnapping was done by Guddu and Munna. The driver of the jeep was being addressed as Parshuram. The petitioner is named also as Parshuram Gupta. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the victim has married with one Om Prakash and she has sworn affidavit before the Executive Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5134 of 2012 (3) dt.29-03-2012 2/2 Magistrate, Nagpur on 5th of March, 2011 to that affect. The said affidavit has been brought on record through supplementary. A statement has been made in para 12 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the 164 Cr.P.C. statement of the other victim being the brother of the victim girl and statement that petitioner has no criminal antecedent, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Srinagar (Pujaha) P.S. Case No. 01 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.