Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35277 of 2012 (3) dt.19-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35277 of 2012 ====================================================== Mantoon Shah, Son of Bahadur Shah, Resident of Village- Araha, Police Station- Sour Bazar, District- Saharsa. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 19-12-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner has been arrested in connection with S.T. No. 156 of 2012 arising out of Sour Bazar P.S. Case No. 26 of 2012 registered under [STATUTE] . Earlier the informant has filed a petition in connection with petitioner has repeatedly offence for committing rape on her. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is no material to suggest that petitioner has committed rape on the informant. It is further submitted that informant is a consenting party. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to grant bail to this petitioner at this stage. However, trial be expedited for early disposal preferably within a period of one year. m.p. (Gopal Prasad, 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.