Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41746 of 2012 ====================================================== Vishal Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Goreakothi P.S. Case No. 101 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan. It is alleged that the informant’s minor daughter was forcibly taken away by the petitioner and sold her to the proprietor of Munna Orchestra. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the FIR was lodged after recovery of the victim from the orchestra when the medical opinion suggests the age of the victim between 18 to 19 years when in 164 Cr.P.C. statement, the victim admits that she was in love with the petitioner when the petitioner took her and got her signature on certain papers and sold her to Munna Orchestra. In view of this Court, it is fit case for consideration of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41746 of 2012 (2) dt.05-12-2012 2/2 regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders 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 petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.