Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5723 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahdeni Sahani .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-02-2012 Heard Mr. Shardanand Mishra, learned counsels for the petitioner and Mr. Uma Shankar Prasad, APP for the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 3.9.2011in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner and one Jitendra Sah to have caught hold of the hands and legs of the informant when Dinesh Sahni committed rape. It appears from Annexure 2 that co accused Dinesh Sahni has been granted bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 24337 of 2011. Considering the aforesaid facts and the fact that the accusations have been levelled by the informant who is a lady of questionable character in the background of land dispute, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5723 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 2 / 2 2 each to the satisfaction of CJM, East Champaran, Motihari in Mufassil P.S. Case no. 220 of 2010. 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.