Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12069 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Raja Lal Ram 2. Lalan Prasad @ Lallan Sah. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 09-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of commission of unnatural offence on pistol point. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that initially the complaint was dismissed but in pursuance to the revisional order, the cognizance order has been passed in the year 2011. It is further submitted that the wife of the petitioner has filed a criminal case against the enquiry witness and at whose behest the present complaint has been filed. Considering the fact that initially the complaint was dismissed and the enquiry witness is the accused in a case lodged by the wife of the petitioner, let the above named petitioners be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12069 of 2012 (2) dt.09-04-2012 2/2 released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Siwan in connection with Complaint Case No. 1237 of 2007, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 377

Statute Text:
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Unnatural offences. Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.