Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.221 of 2012 Lilanand Sahni Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2. 4.1.2012 Heard. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in Jandaha P.S.Case No. 182 of 21011 registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner attempted to commit rape upon the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for an occurrence of 1.10.2011 the F. I.R. was lodged on 3.10.2011 and the victim was not examined medically and as such the offence alleged is not made out. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner Lilanand Sahni be directed to be released, either in the event of his arrest by the police or surrender before the court below, on furnishing a bond of Rs. 10,000/-( ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in the aforesaid case, subject to the conditions as laid down in Section 438(2) Cr. P.C. Kanth ( 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.