Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.46112 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjeev Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Complaint Case No. 2857 of 2000 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur. The accusation is of committing rape with the informant by the petitioner and one Nand Kishore Sah. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during investigation, the accusation was found false and final form was submitted which was accepted but on protest the cognizance has been taken in the year 2004. In view of this Court, it is fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.46112 of 2012 (2) dt.14-12-2012 2/2 With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.