Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2179 of 2012 ====================================================== Pawan Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 27-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Sadar P.S. Case No. 184 of 2005 registered under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned 2nd Additional Sessions Judge, Darbhanga. The accusation was of abducting the victim and establishing forceful physical relationship. It appears that considering the fact that there was some relationship between the parties from before Dhrub Paswan, against whom there was also same accusation, has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 34503 of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2179 of 2012 (2) dt.27-01-2012 2 / 2 2 2009. I see no reason for the learned court below not give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.