Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39035 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39035 of 2012 ========================================= Ashutosh Kumar @ Laloo, son of Chandra Shekhar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ========================================= CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. This application has been filed for the grant of regular bail to the petitioner who has been made an accused in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3(i)(xii) of SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. The petitioner is one of the three named accused in this case of gang rape, but submission is of false implication and the victim informant has taken U-turn. Taking into consideration other two co-accused have already been released on bail respectively vide orders dated 07.11.2012 and 26.11.2012 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 40016/2012 and Cr. Misc. No. 40065/2012, and likewise, petitioner also carries no criminal antecedent. If, it is so, let the above named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39035 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif, in connection with Silao P.S. Case No. 106/2012, with a condition to remain physically present before the court below on each and every date till disposal of the case, in case of failure on two consecutive dates without giving any reasonable explanation, the liberty granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. Rajeev/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.