Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34660 of 2012 (2) dt.18-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34660 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Kumar @ Sanjay Kumar Singh @ Sunil Singh @ Sunil Choudhary, son of Vidya Singh, resident of Village- Sanchi Patti, P.S. Hajipur Town, District- Vaishali. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 2 18-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the informant as well as learned counsel for the State. The petitioner has been arrested in connection with Sessions Tr. No. 123 of 2012 arising out of Hajipur Town P.S. Case No. 154 of 2003, registered under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in this case charge was framed in the year 2010. However, trial exhausted in this case, but none of the witnesses have turned up and only one witness has been declared hostile. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to grant bail to this petitioner at this stage. However, trial court is directed to expedite the trial for early disposal of this case preferably within a period of four months. However, if the trail is not concluded within a period of four months then petitioner may renew his prayer for bail. m.p. (Gopal Prasad, 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.