Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23949 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijali Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-07-2012 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 offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making attempt to establish forceful physical relationship with the complainant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the complainant has retracted from her initial version and filed a petition before the learned court below to that effect. It is further submitted petitioner has never received any summons. In view of this Court, it is a good case for consideration of regular bail if the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23949 of 2012 (2) dt.27-07-2012 2/2 surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with C.R. No. 442 of 2004 pending in the court of learned ACJM, Rosera, Samastipur. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.