Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8221 of 2012 (7) dt.21-11-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8221 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Khalid @ Md. Khalique .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 7 21-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of kidnapping minor girl when physical relationship was established as a result of which the victim got pregnant. It is submitted that during investigation, it has come that the victim was married from before when it is submitted by learned counsel for the state that the charge sheet has been submitted under [STATUTE] . Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner in case the petitioner surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case no. 4 of 2009 pending in the court of learned C.J.M., Begusarai. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8221 of 2012 (7) dt.21-11-2012 observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 497

Statute Text:
Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code. Adultery. Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both. In such case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor.