Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4337 of 2012 ====================================================== Prince Khan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. S.A. Khan, Sr. Adv. For the State : Mr. A.M.P. Mehta, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-02-2012 Petitioner is languishing in custody since 11.10.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of abducting the sister of the informant. The 164 Cr.P.C. statement of the victim reflects that victim has negated the accusation. Though the victim got her age recorded as 15 years but the doctor has assessed her age as 18 years and did not find any injury on the person of the victim. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Prince Khan, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4337 of 2012 (2) dt.14-02-2012 2 / 2 2 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Barbigha P.S. Case No. 129 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.