Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7069 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajo Paswan @ Rajdeo Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s minor daughter was subjected to sexual assault by this petitioner. The medical opinion though suggests the age of the victim between 13-14 years, but it suggests no sign of commission of the offence. It is submitted that the informant subsequently retracted from the initial version and said that on the suggestion of certain villagers, he named the petitioner. Considering the medical opinion and the retracted version of the informant, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7069 of 2012 (2) dt.13-03-2012 2 / 2 2 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Teghra P.S. Case No. 175 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.