IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.34460 of 2009 DILIP KUMAR SINGH @ DILIP KUMAR son of Sakaldeo Kunwar, resident of village Ramban, P.S. Shyampur Bhataha, District Sheohar, … …Petitioner Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR… …OPPOSITE PARTY For the Petitioner: M/s. Jagdish Pd. No. 1 and Virendra Kumar, Advocates For the S t a t e : Mr. R.P.S. Singh, A.P.P. ----------- 2 15.10.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner has been made accused in a case under sections 363/366/120B/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The informant is stated in the first information that the petitioner along with others had kidnapped his minor daughter for the purposes of marriage with her, however, subsequently, the girl was examined by the Medical Board, which has opined the girl aged about in between 17-19 years. The girl’s statement has also been recorded under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, wherein she has disclosed her age as 20 years, but the concerned Magistrate has assessed her age of about 17 years. The girl has stated in the aforesaid statement that she had willingly gone with the petitioner and married with him. It is further submitted that the girl was kept in 2 Remand Home and by order dated 11.09.2009 a Division Bench of this Court passed in C.W.J.C. No.9314 of 2009 has given a direction that all the girls, who are more than 18 years, be released from the Remand Home and, accordingly, Ammi Kumari(the daughter of the informant) has also been directed to be released. It is also stated that the petitioner is in jail custody since 09.04.2009. In the facts and circumstances of the case, the petitioner, Dilip Kumar Singh alias Dilip Kumar, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sheohar in Bhataha P.S. Case No. 29/09(G.R. No. 167/09). SC ( Dr. Ravi Ranjan, J.)