Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.183 of 2012 ====================================================== Kameshwar Chaudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 15.10.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner being the father in law of the victim, in absence of the husband, established forceful physical relationship and then tried to put the victim on fire. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the injury report does not corroborate the accusation under [STATUTE] but considering the injury and the confession of the victim when she was unable to speak and in her statement in the hospital she supported the accusation, this court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner at Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.183 of 2012 (3) dt.05-03-2012 2 / 2 2 present. Prayer of the petitioner for bail is rejected in Chandan P.S. Case no. 83 of 2011 pending in the court of C.J.M. Banka. Anil/- (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.