Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44317 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Meera Devi @ Meera Kumari 2. Pramila Devi 3. Pradeep Paswan 4. Dilip Paswan 5. Gulshan Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-12-2012 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 victim in her 164 Cr.P.C. statement got her age recorded as 20 years when the Court assessed the age of the victim as 19 years where she stated that she of her own married with the petitioner No. 5 when petitioner No. 1 to 4 are the family members of the petitioner No. 5 and informant has subsequently retracted from the initial version. Considering the same, let the petitioners, above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44317 of 2012 (2) dt.14-12-2012 2 / 2 2 named, 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, Begusarai in connection with Garhpura P.S. Case No. 21 of 2012. 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.