Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4619 of 2012 (2) dt.14-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4619 of 2012 ====================================================== Amar Nath Kumar @ Santosh Kumar .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-02-2012 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] . It is alleged that the petitioner tried to establish forceful physical relationship. It is submitted that for occurrence of 07.08.2011, F.I.R. was lodged on 23.08.2011 when the petitioner’s side at earlier point of time lodged a case against the informant. Moreover, the accusation at best is made out under [STATUTE] . Delayed lodging of the F.I.R. clouds the bonafide of accusation, 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 Sonbarsa P.S. Case No. 114 of 2011 on furnishing Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4619 of 2012 (2) dt.14-02-2012 bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Sitamarhi, 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.