Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24295 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Yadav, Son of Ram Sharan Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 11-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, who is armed with carbon/xerox copy of the case diary. The petitioner, who is languishing in custody, seeks bail in a case registered under [STATUTE] and Section 3(X) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, is one of the named accused in this case of gang rape. Submission is of false implication and delayed institution of the case without any medical support etc. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, for the present, prayer for regular bail of the above named petitioner, in connection with Kahalgaon (Shivnarayanpur) P.S. Case No. 207/2011, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur, is hereby, refused. Simultaneously, courts below are directed to proceed expeditiously with the trial and avoid undue delay and adjournments and the petitioner, if so wishes, is liberty to renew his prayer before the trial court itself after examination of the victim. Praveen-II/- (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.