Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8220 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ratan Basuki @ Ratan Baski S/O Bishun Basuki Resident Of Village- Dhawana, P.S.- Katoria, District- Banka .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on the pretext of marrying the complainant, petitioner sexually exploited her several times and eventually she got pregnant. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the complainant bears a questionable character and is a consenting party. Petitioner never exploited her on the promise to marry her. When he denied her proposal of marriage then the complaint has been filed on 28.4.2010. Considering delay in lodging of the complaint and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8220 of 2012 (2) dt.19-03-2012 2 / 2 2 nature of accusation, let petitioner named above be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case no.770 of 2010 on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/-(Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Banka, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. sudip/- (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.