Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30060 of 2012 ====================================================== Uma Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 24-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the uncle of the husband of the complainant is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner attempted to establish forceful physical relationship. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that complaint has been lodged after two days of the occurrence when there is no medical report, whereas it is submitted by learned counsel for the complainant that the act of the petitioner is not commendable. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30060 of 2012 (2) dt.24-08-2012 2/2 In view of this Court, it is a case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case No. 718C of 2011 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Jamui. 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.