Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11903 of 2012 ====================================================== Rakesh Ram & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 09-04-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of kidnapping minor daughter of the informant. The victim in her 164 Cr.P.C. statement stated that forceful marriage was performed when forceful physical relationship was also established by petitioner No. 1. Rakesh Ram, but the victim subsequently retracted from her 164 Cr.P.C. statement by filing a petition that under pressure she got her statement recorded. The informant has also subsequently retracted from initial version. Considering the inconsistency in the statement of the victim, let the petitioners namely 1. Rakesh Ram 2. Arun Ram 3. Ghuran Ram 4. Sudama Devi, in the event of their Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11903 of 2012 (2) dt.09-04-2012 2 / 2 2 arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Benipur, Darbhanga in connection with Bahera P.S. Case No. 264 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.