Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8322 of 2012 ====================================================== Chunchun Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 07.01.2012 in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . When dead body of the husband of informant was recovered from the pond with blood injury, F.I.R. was lodged. The suspicion has been raised against the petitioner that since the deceased was a witness against the petitioner who was an accused in a case under [STATUTE] . Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, let the petitioner above named be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Nawada, in connection with Nawada Mufassil Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8322 of 2012 (2) dt.20-03-2012 2 / 2 2 P.S. Case No. 149 of 2011. The petitioner will file an undertaking on affidavit before the learned court below that he will co-operate in investigation and the said undertaking be transmitted to the concerned Investigating Officer of the present case. Non co-operation by the petitioner in investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file an application for cancellation of bail of petitioner. U.K./- (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.