Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30406 of 2012 ====================================================== Dr. A. Haque Siddique @ Ajimul Haque .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1)(ix)(x)of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act). It is alleged that the daughter of the informant was residing in the hostel of a school when the Director of the school established physical relationship and got pregnancy terminated through this petitioner. When the informant came to meet her daughter, she was not allowed and her daughter subsequently died on 01.08.2011. A UD case was registered by the father of the victim on 01.08.2011 which suggests that the present informant who is mother of the victim, was also present when the UD case was registered when on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30406 of 2012 (2) dt.27-08-2012 2 / 2 2 05.08.2011, the doctor of Health Centre registered a case against this petitioner for not treating the victim properly. Thereafter, the present complaint was filed on 24.11.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 11.12.2011. It is submitted that post mortem does not reflect any external injury and considering the post mortem and U.D. case lodged by the father of the victim, the Director of the school was granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 11719 of 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Manjhagarh P.S. Case No. 212 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Gopalganj, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 376

Statute Text:
Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code. Rape. Whoever, commits an offence punishable under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 376 and in the course of such commission inflicts an injury which causes the death of the woman or causes the woman to be in a persistent vegetative state, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life, or with death.