Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25090 of 2012 ====================================================== Pawan Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-07-2012 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] and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the informant went to her sister in-laws’ house when this petitioner established forceful physical relationship with the informant in 2007. Thereafter, the informant was pregnant in 2008 and her pregnancy was terminated on promise that the petitioner shall marry and also executed a deed with regard to performing marriage on revenue stamp paper but subsequently dowry demand was made. It is submitted that medical report does not reflect any sign of termination of pregnancy and the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25090 of 2012 (2) dt.23-07-2012 2 / 2 2 age assessed by the doctor as about 19 years. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the 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 Barhara P.S. Case No. 04 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. Bhojpur at Arrah, 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.