Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19792 of 2012 (3) dt.29-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19792 of 2012 ====================================================== Balbant Chaupal @ Balbant Kumar Chaupal .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 29-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending 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 that in statement under section 164 Cr.P.C., the victim has got her age recorded as 17 years but the same was assessed as 16 years by the learned court below. The statement under section 164 Cr.P.C. suggests that the victim went of her own in the company of the petitioner, stayed for a considerable period in Delhi and thereafter returned when no misbehaviour has been alleged. Considering the statement under section 164 Cr.P.C. of the victim, let the above named petitioner be released on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19792 of 2012 (3) dt.29-06-2012 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 Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Benipur in connection with Bahera P.S. Case No. 217 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the 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.