Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11388 of 2012 ====================================================== Mohan Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that he establish physical relationship on promise to marry. Subsequently promised to pay Rs.31,000/- for terminating the pregnancy but that too was not paid. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that after six months of cause of action the FIR has been lodged and even assuming the accusation the offence under [STATUTE] is not made out. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11388 of 2012 (2) dt.06-04-2012 2/2 in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection with Baisi P.S. Case No. 242 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.