Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30802 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ajay Sah @ Ajay Kumar Sah 2. Mukesh Sah @ Mukesh Kumar Sah 3. Dilip Sah @ Dilip Kumar Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 28-08-2012 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] . It is alleged that Yugesh Sah kidnapped the daughter of the informant and taken to Delhi and on pressure performed marriage and established physical relationship. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the FIR has been lodged after one and half months when the victim returned from Delhi. In 164 Cr.P.C. statement she has stated her age as 14 years when the court has assessed her age as 16 years when Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30802 of 2012 (2) dt.28-08-2012 2/2 she stated that she went in the company of Yugesh of her own to Delhi with whom she performed marriage. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against Yugesh Sah, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in connection with Pirpainti P.S. Case No. 26 of 2012, 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.