Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5142 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Satish Kumar Mahto @ Satish @ Satish Kumar S/O Ram Rikhi Mahto R/O Vill Beruin, P.S.Baniyapur, Distt-Saran(Baniyapur) .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 22-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 30.01.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that he along with Yamuna Mahto and Ram Kumar Mahto pulled the informant in the bushes and tried to undress her. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that from the accusation at best a case under [STATUTE] is made out and considering the same other accused persons have been granted by the learned court below itself. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5142 of 2012 (2) dt.22-02-2012 2/2 each to the satisfaction of learned Ist Additional Sessions Judge, Chapra in connection with Sessions Trial No. 415 of 2011 arising out of Baniyapur P.S. Case No. 162 of 2010. DKS/ (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.