Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12150 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioner being cousin brother of the informant tried to establish forceful physical relationship with the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the occurrence of 02.02.2012 at 6:00 P.M. the F.I.R. was lodged on 03.02.2012 at 5:00 P.M. when there is serious land dispute between the parties and as per the F.I.R., no medical examination of the victim was done. It is further submitted that as per the accusation levelled, at best the accusation falls within the purview of [STATUTE] . Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Dinesh Ram, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12150 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Jandaha P.S. Case No. 23 of 2012. 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.