Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17527 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Parshadi Mandal 2. Satiya Devi 3. Mala Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 19-06-2012 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. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that son of petitioner nos. 1 and 2 Bijay Mandal has married with the victim girl since they were in love affairs and they are residing peacefully. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on provisional anticipatory bail for six months in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17527 of 2012 (2) dt.19-06-2012 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Naugachia in connection with Parbatta P.S. Case No. 02 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Let the petitioners persuade the victim girl to appear before the learned court below on 30th of July, 2012 and if the victim girl admits that she of her own married with Bijay Mandal then the provisional bail of the petitioners 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.