Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22204 of 2012 ====================================================== Mintu Kumar @ Dhiraj Kr. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 29-06-2012 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] . The accusation is of establishing forceful physical relationship with the complainant on 10.02.2011 when the complainant got pregnant protest was made to perform marriage but the same was not performed. Complaint was filed on 22.10.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 16.11.2011. It is submitted that delayed lodging of the complaint clouds the accusation and even assuming accusation it appears that relationship was established between the complainant and petitioner with mutual consent. It is further submitted that the victim was not medically examined. Considering delayed lodging of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22204 of 2012 (3) dt.29-06-2012 2 / 2 2 complaint, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Sahebganj P.S. Case No. 233 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M.,(West), Muzaffarpur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 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.