Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.678 of 2012 Pappu Mukhia Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 11.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a Complaint Case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . Initially the complaint case was lodged with accusation of establishing forceful physical relationship. There is nothing on record to show that the victim was medically examined. During investigation, the police found the allegations false and final form was submitted. On protest, cognizance has been taken. Considering the fact that the accusation was found false by the police, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of J.M. Ist Class, Biraul at Benipur, Darbhanga in Complaint Case no. 101/08 (T.R. No. 1307 of 2001) subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/ (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.