Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37228 of 2011 ====================================================== Asgar Ali @ Asgar Ansari Son Of Md. Kamruddin Ansari R/O Village- Kapraul, P.S.- Riga, District- Sitamarhi .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 03. 14-02-2012 Heard the parties. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Riga P.S. Case No. 77 of 2011 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner has been charged with sexually assaulting the informant while she had gone to relieve herself. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that no sign of sexual assault was found by the Medical Officer upon conducting the medical examination of the victim girl. Regard being had to the medical report of the victim girl, let the petitioner Asgar Ali @ Asgar Ansari be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge, F.T.C. No. 7, Sitamarhi in connection with Sessions Trial No. 321 of 2011 arising from Riga P.S. Case No. 77 of 2011 subject to the condition that the petitioner shall ensure his representation before the court below on each and every date fixed in the case and the failure on the part of the petitioner to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37228 of 2011 (3) dt.14-02-2012 2 ensure his representation on two consecutive dates fixed without reasonable explanation to the satisfaction of the court below, would entitle the court concerned to cancel his bail bonds and to take him into custody. S.Sb/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.