Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37526 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Surendra Mishra S/O Late Sri Niwas Mishra R/O Village- Jigna, P.S.- Sikroll, District- Buxar. 2. Pappu Mishra S/O Devendra Mishra R/O Village- Jigna, P.S.- Sikroll, District- Buxar. 3. Devendra Mishra S/O Late Sri Niwas Mishra R/O Village- Jigna, P.S.- Sikroll, District- Buxar. 4. Putul Mishra S/O Devendra Mishra R/O Village- Jigna, P.S.- Sikroll, District- Buxar. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that one Anil Mishra entered into the house of the informant and attempted to establish forceful physical relationship with his wife and committed theft and subsequently when the informant went to the house of Anil Mishra then these petitioners being the family members of Anil Mishra abused and assaulted the informant. Considering the thrust of accusation against Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37526 of 2012 (2) dt.01-10-2012 2 / 2 2 Anil Mishra, let the petitioners, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Sikroll P.S. Case No. 30 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Buxar, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.