Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1598 of 2012 ====================================================== Sachin Keshari @ Sachin Kumar Keshari, Son of Late Ranjeet Keshari, resident of Village-Chakai Bazar, P.S. Chakai, District-Jamui. .... .... Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. Sumita Soren, D/O Late Kisku Soren, resident of Village- Karnibagh, P.S. Kunda, District- Deoghar, Jharkhand. .... .... Opposite Parties. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 8 10-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, complainant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing physical relationship with the complainant on promise of marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has married with one widow girl, namely, Durga Pandey @ Durga Kumari Pandey when some order was passed in Cr. W.J.C. No. 692 of 2010 which gets reflected from Annexure-1. It is further submitted that previous father-in-law of Durga Pandey was not happy with the said marriage hence he set the complainant to lodge the present complaint against the petitioner whereas it is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1598 of 2012 (8) dt.10-09-2012 2 / 2 2 submitted by learned counsel for the complainant that the complainant has been cheated by this petitioner. Considering the fact that accusation of establishing physical relationship with the complainant is of November, 2008 when the present complaint has been filed in July, 2011, 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 Complaint Case No. 942C of 2011 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. Jamui, 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.