Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27135 of 2012 ====================================================== Raju Jain S/O Babulal Jain R/O Mohalla-Ward No. 24, Haliya Road, Marwan Pati, P.O.- & P.S.-Araria, Distt.-Araria .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : None. For the State : Smt. I.B. Pandey, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. ANJANA PRAKASH ORAL ORDER 2. 17-07-2012 No one appears on behalf of the Petitioner. The Petitioner seeks quashing of the First Information Report of Araria P.S. Case No. 462 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] but by an order dated 17/18.5.2012 the Magistrate has taken cognizance under [STATUTE] . Having gone through the petition filed herein and the documents annexed thereto, I do not find any reason to interfere in the matter. The application is dismissed. S.Ali (Anjana Prakash, 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.