Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3524 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pinku Kumar, 2. Dauli Kumari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 03-02-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to make necessary correction in the petition, as prayed for. Heard Mr. Prem Chandra Yadav, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. Ansarul Haque, learned counsel for the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of abducting the minor daughter of the informant. It appears that the victim has admitted that she went in the company of Tinku Kumar and she has denied the accusation levelled against the petitioners. The medical board has assessed the age of the victim as 16 to 17 years. Considering the fact that the victim has not named the petitioners and accusation was found false during investigation Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3524 of 2012 (2) dt.03-02-2012 2 / 2 2 / 2 2 against them, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa, Nalanda in connection with Hilsa P.S. Case No. 119 /2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.