Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13426 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sabir Alam @ Saghir Alam 2. Rozidan Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 18-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping the minor daughter of the informant by Rizwan, who happens to be the son of the petitioners. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that Rizwan has married with the victim girl and both are residing as husband and wife. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on provisional anticipatory bail for three months in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13426 of 2012 (2) dt.18-04-2012 2/2 of twelve weeks from today, 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, Gopalganj in connection with Uchkagaon P.S. Case No. 20 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The petitioners undertake to produce the victim girl before the learned court below on 28th of May, 2012 when the learned court below will record the statement of the victim girl and if she admits that she of her own married with the son of the petitioners then the provisional bail will be confirmed by the learned court below. DKS/ (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.