Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18114 of 2012 ====================================================== Nirjala Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.18601 of 2012 ====================================================== Raushan Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 24-07-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that these petitioners sold the school boys for commercial purposes. The boys were recovered from the train. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners were not found from the place of recovery and the 164 statement of one of the victim Sudhir Kumar that petitioner Nirjala Devi and Ganaur Yadav administered some sweets(laddu) as a result of which the victim got intoxicated when one Sanjay Yadav was present but Sanjay Yadav has not been named in the First Information Report. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18114 of 2012 (4) dt.24-07-2012 2 / 2 2 A statement has been made in para 19 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the inconsistency in the 164 Cr.P.C. statement of the victims, let the petitioners namely 1. Nirjala Devi 2. Raushan Khatoon, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the 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, Darbhanga in connection with Ashok Paper Mill P.S. Case No. 25 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 374

Statute Text:
Section 374 of the Indian Penal Code. Unlawful compulsory labour. Whoever unlawfully compels any person to labour against the will of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.