Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17828 of 2012 (2) dt.05-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17828 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjit Kumar, Son of late Baleshwar Singh, resident of Saidapur, P.S. Pandarak, District – Patna. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Jay Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party : Mr. Uday Chand Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.N. SINHA ORAL ORDER 02/ 05-06-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence under [STATUTE] and he is named in the FIR which was lodged as far back on 20.12.2004. It appears after about seven years petitioner has requested the court below for grant of bail in the even of arrest. Petitioner having been named in the First Information Report with specific allegation of committing rape on the informant, I am not inclined to consider the request for grant of bail in the event of arrest, which is rejected. DKS/- (V.N. Sinha, 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.