Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36222 of 2012 (2) dt.08-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36222 of 2012 ====================================================== Miro Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 08.10.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 24.4.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] on the allegation that having entered into the house of the informant he attempted to commit rape on her and also gave dagger blow to her. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that the informant has received simple injury which is evident from annexure 2 to this petition and so far as allegation of attempt to rape is concerned, the same has been inserted in this case to make the offence graver and, as a matter of fact, present case has been brought on account of previous enmity. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Miro Singh, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in Halsi P.S. Case no. 33/2012. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.