Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16091 of 2012 ====================================================== Dilip Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1)(x)(ii)(v) of the S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities)Act. The accusation is of committing rape and abuse by calling caste name. The medical report has been brought on record i.e., Annexure-2 which reflects no injury particularly any sign of rape and considering the same other accused Munan Singh has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 44820 of 2011 by this Court. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16091 of 2012 (2) dt.03-05-2012 2 / 2 2 period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Daraunda P.S. Case No. 137 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Siwan. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.