Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3370 of 2012 ====================================================== Rupen Kumar @ Rupen Mandal S/O Yuvraj Mandal R/O Vill.- Gaddi, P.S.- Raghopur, District- Supaul .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SAMARENDRA PRATAP SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SAMARENDRA PRATAP SINGH) 2 01-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner in Complaint case no. 43 C of 2005 under [STATUTE] . was earlier rejected by order dated 28.02.2007. The petitioner instead of surrendering pursuant to the rejection of anticipatory bail application, again has filed this application for grant of anticipatory bail after five years. The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is rejected. The petitioner must surrender in the court below forthwith. In case, the petitioner surrenders, the bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3370 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 application would be disposed of on the same day without being prejudiced by this order. It will be open for the petitioner to take all points before the court below itself. Uday/- (Samarendra Pratap 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.