Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1324 of 2012 Madan Kumar @ Madan Rai Versus The State Of Bihar 2. 16.01.2012. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of abducting minor daughter of the informant. Though it is alleged by the victim in 164 Cr. P.C. statement that Shambhu Mahto and Shobha Devi took her but she was confined in the house of this petitioner from where police recovered the victim on the same day. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the learned court below pass appropriate order and try to dispose off the same if the petitioner surrenders and prays for regular bail within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt/production of copy of this order in connection with Sheohar P.S. Case No. 33 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned S.D.J.M., Sheohar. 2 With this observation this application is disposed off. Let the order be communicated through fax to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U. K. ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 372

Statute Text:
Section 372 of the Indian Penal Code. Selling or letting to hire a minor for purposes of prostitution, etc. Whoever sells, lets to hire, or otherwise disposes of any person under the age of eighteen years with intent that such person shall at any age be employed or used for the purpose of prostitution or illicit intercourse with any person or for any unlawful and immoral purpose, or knowing it to be likely that such person will at any age be employed or used for any such purpose, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.