Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1969 of 2012 (3) dt.14-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1969 of 2012 ====================================================== Bebi Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 14-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the prevention of Immoral Traffic Act. It is alleged that one Shami Khan used to run brothel house in the house of the petitioner when three girls were arrested. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that admittedly Shami Khan was tenant of the petitioner and petitioner was neither residing in the same premises nor she had knowledge about the illegal work being conducted by Shami Khan. Learned A.P.P. after going through the case diary submits that there is nothing on record to suggest that petitioner was residing in the same premises or had knowledge about the illegal work of Shami Khan. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Bebi Khatoon, in the event of her arrest or surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1969 of 2012 (3) dt.14-03-2012 before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West-Champaran in connection with Bettiah Town P.S. Case No. 591 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.