Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18305 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Sabir @ Sabir .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner established forceful physical relationship with informant for the first time on 20.08.2010 thereafter, the complainant allowed the petitioner to establish physical relationship on promise of marriage when she got pregnant but ultimately marriage was not performed and pregnancy of the complainant was terminated by administering her some medicine. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the accusation of 28.08.2010, the complaint was filed on 25.03.2011 when there is no proof with regard to termination of pregnancy. Considering the delayed filing of the complaint and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18305 of 2012 (2) dt.15-05-2012 2/2 nature of accusation, 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection with C.A. Case No. 619 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.