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Whoever, commits an offence punishable under sub-section (1) or sub- section (2) ofsection 376 and in the course ofsuch commission inflicts an injurywhich causes the death ofthe 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 ofthat person's natural life, or with death.