Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8695 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Aftab Alam @ Munnu @ Md. Aftab Ansari @ Munna .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 30.12.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that after promising to marry, the petitioner established physical relationship with the victim on 15.4.2011 for which a panchayati was held on 20.9.2011 wherein the petitioner was found to be innocent. It is further alleged that there was attempt to administer poison to the victim on 5.10.2011 and thereafter on 1.12.2011 the FIR was lodged. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the medical report suggests that the victim was pregnant. However, the said repot does not reflect any injury to the victim. Considering the delayed lodging of the case, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8695 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2 / 2 2 of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Purnea in Amaur P.S. Case No. 182 of 2011. 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.