Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32746 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sudama Devi 2. Bhulan Devi 3. Ramakant Chaudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Subsequently [STATUTE] was also added. The accusation is of kidnapping the daughter of the informant and establishing forceful physical relationship. In 164 Cr.P.C. statement the victim has named these petitioners also when Chandrabhan and Sunil established forceful physical relationship and subsequently Chandrabhan performed marriage with the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32746 of 2012 (2) dt.27-09-2012 2/2 petitioners that the specific accusation is against Chandrabhan and Sunil. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners, if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Ramnagar Mahila P.S. Case No. 08 of 2012 pending in the court of learned ACJM, Bagaha, West Champaran. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (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.