Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14911 of 2012 ====================================================== Baidyanath Sah @ Baijnath Sah .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-04-2012 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 this petitioner tried to establish forceful physical relationship with the informant on 13.02.2012 at 6.30 P.M. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that from accusation itself, it appears that even assuming accusation at best case under [STATUTE] . is made out when the informant is none else than niece of petitioner and due to some land dispute the accusation has been levelled and for occurrence of 13.02.2012, F.I.R. was registered on 18.02.2012. Delayed lodging of F.I.R. which clouds the bonafide of accusation, let the petitioner, above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14911 of 2012 (2) dt.24-04-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Jandaha P.S. Case No. 36 of 2012 on furnishing 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. Vaishali at Hajipur, 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.