Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8669 of 2012 ====================================================== Anju Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner being the neighbour and one Sweeti Kumari came to the house of the informant and persuaded her to go to Bargaon for taking bath and from there they were taken to sitting a bus at Nalanda bus stand and thereafter this petitioner conveyed to the informant and Sweeti to go to Rajgir where they will have to live with a man and they will be paid Rs.5000/- and they apprehended some fish and hence the present case has been lodged. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8669 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2/2 petitioner that due to dispute she has been roped in the present case and a statement has been made that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the fact that petitioner is lady, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Ben P.S. Case No. 96 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.