Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27976 of 2012 ====================================================== Achhelal Sah .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing forceful physical relationship with the daughter of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that medical report suggests the age of the victim between 15 ½ to 16 ½ years when no sign of rape was found on the victim and the victim has also retracted from the initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. The statement has been made in paragraph no.9 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27976 of 2012 (2) dt.07-08-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kesariya P.S. Case No. 23 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. East Champaran, Motihari, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.