Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31522 of 2012 (3) dt.26-11-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31522 of 2012 ====================================================== Sagar Pandit .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 26-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and sections 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged by the informant that the accused persons established forceful physical relation as a result of which pregnancy was aborted when the complaint was made then the assault was made and then the informant side was abused by calling the caste name. It is submitted that for the occurrence of 1.6.2010 the complaint was filed on 7.7.2010 which came to be registered as police case on 1.1.2011 and the medical report absolutely does not corroborate the accusation either of commission of rape or abortion when none of the parts of the occurrence is alleged to hae Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31522 of 2012 (3) dt.26-11-2012 taken place in public view. Considering the delayed lodging of the case coupled with the accusation not being corroborated by the medical opinion, 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 twelve 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 learned CJM, Darbhanga in connection with Ashok Paper Mill P.S. Case No. 8 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.