Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6573 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Tiayee .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors .... .... Opposite Parties. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 11-04-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make necessary correction in prayer portion of the petition. 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] . It is alleged that the petitioner, co- accused Tilautiya and one unknown accused to have established forceful physical relationship with the informant on 30.12.2010. It is submitted that the victim was examined on 01.01.2011 when no external or external injury was found. Though the age of the victim has been assessed to be 13-14 years but considering the fact that the medical opinion absolutely negates Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6573 of 2012 (4) dt.11-04-2012 2 / 2 2 accusation, 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 Muzaffarpur Rail P.S. Case No. 84 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Railway Judicial Magistrate, Sonepur, District-Saran, 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.