Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18371 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dinesh Singh 2. Arun Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-05-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of kidnapping the minor daughter of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners have not been named in the F.I.R. and their name sprang up on confession of the co-accused. The victim in her 164 Cr.P.C. statement has also not named the petitioners. It is further submitted that other co-accused have been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 5761/2012 and Cr. Misc. No. 4237/2012. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners, if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18371 of 2012 (2) dt.16-05-2012 2 / 2 2 Barhara P.S. Case No. 115 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through Fax to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. Shageer/- (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.