Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4156 of 2012 ====================================================== Suresh Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 09-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s grandson was residing in the hostel when the grandson conveyed to the informant that this petitioner, being the director of Sawarmati Gyan Niketan School, committed unnatural offence. The medical report does not corroborate the accusation. It is submitted that the informant subsequently retracted from his initial version. Learned counsel for the informant submits that the informant retracted from his initial version under certain pressure which lends credence to the submission of learned Sr. counsel for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4156 of 2012 (2) dt.09-02-2012 2 / 2 2 the petitioner that due to school business politics, the present case has been lodged. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa (Nalanda) in connection with Telhar P.S. Case No. 02 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the 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.