Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39067 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Murshid Alam S/O Md. Nayim Ansari Resident Of Village- Baliyotanr, P.S- Jhajha, District- Jamui. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-10-2012 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 with the complainant on 25.06.2011. It is submitted that for occurrence of 25.06.2011, complaint was filed on 23.08.2011 when there is no medical report and the complainant has subsequently retracted from her initial version and filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. The statement has been made in paragraph no. 9 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39067 of 2012 (2) dt.12-10-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering delay filing of the complaint and retracted version of the complainant, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case No. 1108-C of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Jamui, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 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.