Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1052 of 2012 ====================================================== Safakat Ansari, son of Shekhawath Ansari. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 13-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on 26.01.2011, the petitioner established forceful physical relationship with the complainant for which the complaint was filed on 05.02.2011. The delay for lodging of the complaint has been given in the complaint petition that there was some hope of Panchayati. It appears from the complaint that no medication examination of the victim girl has been done. The delayed lodging of the complaint clouds the bona fide of the accusation coupled with the non-examination of the victim by Doctor. 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Jamui in connection with Complaint Case No. 158C/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anjani /- (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.