Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40584 of 2011 (3) dt.07-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40584 of 2011 ====================================================== Jai Narayan Sharma @ Jag Narayan S/O Late Jhingur Sharma Resident Of Village- Pali, P.S.- Chanshyampur, District- Darbhanga. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 03. 07-02-2012 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Ghanshyampur P.S. Case No. 35 of 2011, Sessions Trial No. 363 of 2011 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The allegation against the petitioner is of raping the daughter of the informant. Learned counsel for the petitioner, with reference to the medical examination report conducted by the Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital placed at Annexure-2 of the application submits that the findings therein do not suggest any rape being committed on the person of the victim girl. Regard being had to the submissions of learned counsel, let the petitioner Jai Narayan Sharma @ Jag Narayan be released on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40584 of 2011 (3) dt.07-02-2012 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 Sessions Judge, Darbhanga in connection with Ghanshyampur P.S. Case No. 35 of 2011, Sessions Trial No. 363 of 2011. 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.