Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3230 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Raju Kumar S/O Sri Jagdish Prasad R/O Village - Jagdishpur, P.S. - Jagdishpur, District - Bhojpur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 07-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The mater has been listed at the instance of the petitioner for being taken out of turn since the petitioner has to appear in Senior Secondary Teacher Eligibility Test which is scheduled from 17.02.2012. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 17.12.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that the petitioner attempted to establish forceful physical relationship with the informant who is aged about 12 years. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the charge-sheet has been submitted and the police is trying to get matter tried under the fast track. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3230 of 2012 (3) dt.07-02-2012 2/2 Considering the fact that charge-sheet has been submitted, let the petitioner namely Raju Kumar, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri P.K. Jha, Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Gaya in connection with Delha P.S. Case No. 120 of 2011. The learned court below will be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioner if he defaults for three consecutive occasions. DKS/ (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.