IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.30091 of 2008 DEEPAK PASWAN @ APLENDU KUMAR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2/ 1/10/2008. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner apprehends arrest in a police case under Sections- 376 and 363/34 of I.P.C. The F.I.R. has been lodged by the father of the victim girl after she returned home. The girl is stated to have accompanied the petitioner and his friend to his aunt’s house by Bus. She stayed there for 2 to 3 days. There they are alleged to have sexually assaulted her. She then returns with them. An informatory petition has been filed under the pen of the girl that she was married to the petitioner. Learned counsel for the State opposes the bail application to submit that the victim girl in her statement under Section-164 Cr.P.C. has disclosed her age as about 15 to 16 years, as also assessed by the Doctor. Considering that she had reached the age of discretion and the acknowledgement of having accompanied the petitioner voluntarily, this Court considers it proper to direct that the petitioner Deepak Paswan @ Aplendu Kumar shall surrender before the - 2 - court below within six weeks when he shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail upon furnishing the bail-bonds or Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) along with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M., Munger in Haveli Kharagpur P.S. Case No.295/07, subject to the conditions laid down under Section- 438(2) of Cr.P.C. KC ( Navin Sinha, )