Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30418 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Muntjir .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 23-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing physical relationship with the mad-servant on promise of marriage when attempt was made subsequently to terminate the pregnancy. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that earlier the informant filed complaint on 21.12.2010 with similar accusation and subsequently the present case has been lodged when there is no proof with regard to establishment of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30418 of 2012 (3) dt.23-11-2012 2 / 2 2 physical relationship. A statement has been made in para 19 that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Forbesganj P.S. Case No. 08 of 2011 pending in the court of learned CJM, Araria. It is expected from the learned court below to dispose of the regular bail application of the petitioner preferably on the same day. 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.