Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43143 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Munni Khatoon 2. Guddi @ Guddi Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in Purnea Sadar P.S. Case No. 315 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Sections 5 and 6 of the Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea. It is alleged that two minor girls were recovered from the house of these petitioners who disclosed that these petitioners used them for flesh trade. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the statements of both girls reflect that both fled away from the house and came to the house of these petitioners of their own when they did not allege the accusation of flesh trade. In view of this Court, it is fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43143 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 2/2 the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 373

Statute Text:
Section 373 of the Indian Penal Code. Buying or obtaining possession of a minor for the same purposes. Whoever buys, hires or otherwise obtains possession 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.