Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8720 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ranjeet Kumar Deo @ Ranjeet Deo, 2. Kundan Kumar Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Shivesh Chandra Mishra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are languishing in jail since 2.8.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The dead body of the informant’s daughter was recovered with bleeding injury and the FIR was lodged against unknown. Subsequently, one Chunchunia Devi was examined under section 164 Cr.P.C. where she named none but in her subsequent statement under sections 161 and 164 Cr.P.C. she named the petitioners and Shiv Chandra Rai giving vivid description of the incident of rape and murder and considering the same, co accused Shiv Chandra Rai has been granted bail vide. Cr. Misc. No. 4877 of 2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8720 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners be released on bail 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 C.J.M. Samastipur in Kalyanpur P.S. Case No. 49 of 2003. Anil/- (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.