Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8178 of 2012 ====================================================== Chhotu Sheikh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that two persons tried to establish the forceful physical relationship with Sangeeta Kumari when one person was caught on the spot while other person fled away. The person, who was caught on spot, disclosed the name of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that even assuming the accusation, at best the case is made out under [STATUTE] and due to enmity the other person named this petitioner who happens to be the relative of the apprehended accused. It is orally submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8178 of 2012 (2) dt.20-03-2012 2/ 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Pakaribarawa (Dhamaul) P.S. Case No. 130 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted by learned court below on verification of the fact that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Amrendra/- (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.