Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33090 of 2012 ====================================================== Raiyan .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing forceful physical relationship by six persons including the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that accusation is not supported by any medical examination of the victim when other accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. Nos.13749 of 2005 and 34274 of 2005. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if he surrenders within a period of six Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33090 of 2012 (2) dt.10-09-2012 2 / 2 2 weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Complaint Case No. 743 of 2004 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Purnea. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.