Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34402 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34402 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ashok Singh S/O Late Maheshwar Singh R/O Village- Bedauli, P.S.- Sare, District- Nalanda 2. Guli @ Amlesh Kumar S/O Sri Ashok Singh R/O Village- Bedauli, P.S.- Sare, District- Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3(1)(iii)(x)(xi) and (xii) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of trying to undress the informant, making assault and abusing by calling the caste name. It is submitted that the occurrence took place on 19.5.2012 and the FIR has been registered on 1.6.2012 when no injury has been caused and the accusation under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is simply cosmetic in nature. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34402 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 petitioner 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 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with SC/ST P.S. (Nalanda) Case No. 31 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) 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.