Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36539 of 2012 ====================================================== Nurul Hoda S/O Late Sadrul R/O Village - Khikhi Tola Mahinagar, P.S. Barsoi, District – Katihar. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-09-2012 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 minor dumb daughter of the informant. It is submitted that F.I.R. was lodged after seven days of occurrence. It is further submitted that cloth of the victim for the alleged date of occurrence has not been supplied by the informant to the Investigating Officer and the medical opinion does not suggest the accusation. Let learned court below consider regular bail of the petitioner if he surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36539 of 2012 (2) dt.25-09-2012 2 / 2 2 of this order in connection with Barsoi P.S. Case No. 58 of 2012 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Katihar. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.