Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6664 of 2012 ====================================================== Munna Ansari @ Maniruddin Ansari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 06-03-2012 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 offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing forceful physical relationship. The occurrence is alleged to have taken place on 10.06.2011 when the complaint was filed on 07.07.2011. It appears that subsequently petitioner’s mother filed a complaint against the complainant and her family members. From the complaint it is apparent that no medical examination was done and the delayed lodging of the complaint clouds bonafide of the accusation. Considering the delayed lodging of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6664 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 2/2 complaint, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, 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, Banka in connection with Complaint Case No. 936 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.