IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.29465 of 2009 HEERA LAL MARAYA Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 05.11.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Accusations are under Section 498 A of the Penal Code. The petitioner is stated to be the husband. His birth certificate shows that on the date of marriage he was approximately 17 years of age. Statement has been made in paragraph 8 that the complainant was approximately 13 years of age. There is a counter allegation by the petitioner for a forcible marriage and a suit filed by him that the marriage was voidable. In the facts and circumstances of the case, this Court directs the petitioner, abovenamed to surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks from today, when he shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail for a period of six months only on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 20,000/-(Rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.D.J.M., Purnia in C.A. Case No. 2366 of 2007. During this period of six months, the court below shall require the petitioner and the complainant to appear in person. He shall then assess the respective age of the parties and then pass appropriate orders in accordance with law when the petitioner shall also have the liberty to either renew his prayer for anticipatory bail before the court below itself or for regular bail as the case may be depending on the visual impact of the parties 2 before the trial court. These observations are confined for the purpose of bail only. AKS/ (Navin Sinha, J.)