Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1199 of 2012 Abu Nasar Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 25.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 18.8.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . On recovery of the dead body, the suspicion has been raised against the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the deceased earlier lodged a case against others under [STATUTE] . Admittedly, there is no eye witness to the occurrence and postmortem reflects that decomposed dead body was recovered. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M. Kishanganj in Terhagachh P.S. Case no. 71 of 2010. Anil/ (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.