Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6984 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ranjeet Kumar 2. Girija Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.6989 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Madan Kumar 2. Pintu Kumar …. …. Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar …. …. Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Sections 51, 63, 65, 68A of the Copy Right Act. The accusation is of preparation of Blue Film when Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6984 of 2012 (2) dt.13-03-2012 2 / 3 2 recovery of certain C.Ds were made. The F.I.R. was lodged against Ramashish Prasad and Pintu Kumar. Recovery was made from Pintu Kumar. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the present Pintu Kumar is not the Pintu Kumar from whom recovery was made and subsequently the daughter of Manju Devi made her 164 Cr.P.C. statement when she named her parents and these petitioners for forcing her to commit the offence. Considering the fact that mother of the victim has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 42882 of 2011 on the ground that the victim involved her parents since the parents were objecting the illegal activities of the victim, let the petitioners namely 1. Ranjeet Kumar 2. Girija Devi 3. Madan Kumar, in the event of their arrest or surrender before learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Patna in connection with Kadamkuan P.S. Case No. 72 of 2011. So far as petitioner Pintu Kumar is concerned, let learned Court below verify this fact that petitioner Pintu Kumar is not the accused Pintu Kumar from whom recovery has been made the learned Court below may consider regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6984 of 2012 (2) dt.13-03-2012 3 / 3 3 the petitioner Pintu Kumar, if the petitioner Pintu Kumar surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Kadamkuan P.S. Case No. 72 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna. 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: 292

Statute Text:
Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code. Sale, etc., of obscene books, etc. For the purposes of sub-section (2), a book, pamphlet, paper, writing, drawing, painting representation, figure or any other object, shall be deemed to be obscene if it is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect, or (where it comprises two or more distinct items) the effect of any one of its items, is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it. Whoever: sells, lets to hire, distributes, publicly exhibits or in any manner puts into circulation, or for purposes of sale, hire, distribution, public exhibition or circulation, makes, reduces or has in his possession any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, painting, representation or figure or any other obscene object whatsoever, or imports, exports or conveys any obscene object for any of the purposes aforesaid, or knowing or having reason to believe that such object will be sold, let to hire, distributed or publicly exhibited or in any manner put into circulation, or takes part in or receives profits from any business in the course of which he knows or has reason to believe that any such obscene objects are, for any of the purposes aforesaid, made, produced, purchased, kept, imported, exported, conveyed, publicly exhibited or in any manner put into circulation, or advertises or makes known by any means whatsoever that any person is engaged or is ready to engage in any act which is an offence under this section, or that any such obscene object can be procured from or through any person, or offers or attempts to do any act which is an offence under this section, shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, and with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, and, in the event of a second or subsequent conviction, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and also with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.