Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1507 of 2012 (3) dt.13-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1507 of 2012 ====================================================== Abbas Driver .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 13-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing forceful physical relation by four persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the medical report suggests the victim’s age between 18 to 19 years, when no injury was found, particularly the dragging injury and the informant has subsequently retracted from initial version. It is further submitted that the statements of the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the victim reflect that victim raised no alarm at the time of occurrence. Considering the medical opinion and the retracted version of the informant, let the petitioners namely Abbas Driver @ Md. Abbas, in the event of his arrest or surrender 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1507 of 2012 (3) dt.13-03-2012 each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in connection with Kursakanta P.S. Case No. 35 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.