Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19142 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Munna Tati 2. Sanjay Kahar @ Dara @ Sanjay Kharwar. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 12-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Sections 3 (I) (III) (X) and 2(V) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusations are of making attempt to establish forceful physical relationship and dragging the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that subsequently, the informant retracted from his initial version when for the occurrence of 02.01.2012 the FIR was lodged on 03.01.2012 and a statement has been in para 12 of the petition that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. The notices were issued to the informant on 20.06.2012 but in spite of valid service of notice both, by ordinary process as well as by registered cover, none is appearing on behalf of the informant. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19142 of 2012 (3) dt.12-09-2012 2/2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rohtas at Sasaram in connection with Sheosagar P.S. Case No. 03 of 2012, 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.