Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14694 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramji Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 6 04-09-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make necessary correction in the prayer portion of the petition. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3 (I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of establishing forceful physical relationship with the informant when she went to the hospital for taking birth certificate where she stayed in the night. The specific accusation is against the generator operator. The petitioner was working as night guard in the hospital. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the medical opinion does not reflect any injury and completely negates the accusation of rape when staying of the petitioner in the hospital makes the accusation doubtful when she is the resident of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14694 of 2012 (6) dt.04-09-2012 2/2 same area. A statement has been made in para 11 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Arrah in connection with Arrah Town P.S. Case No. 318 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.