Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.662 of 2012 Siya Ram Sahni Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 10.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being brother-in-law of the informant, is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of entering into the house and lifting the clothes of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on mere assuming the accusation, no case under [STATUTE] is made out. Moreover, for the occurrence of 17.9.2011, the FIR was lodged on 19.9.2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M. Madhubani in Bisphi (Patauna) P.S. Case No. 247 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the 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.