Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1288 of 2012 Sonu @ Gulab Rasul Versus The State Of Bihar 2. 16.01.2012. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of committing forceful physical relationship. It appears that for the occurrence of 11.11.2010 the complaint was filed on 23.12.2010 which came to be registered as police case on 31.12.2010 and from the Sessions judge’s order it appears that in spite of effort by the Investigating Officer, the informant did no go for her statement under Section 164 Cr. P.C. or medical examination. Considering the delayed lodging of complaint and conduct of informant which cloud 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 2 period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Jamo Bazar P.S. Case No. 89 of 2010 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. Siwan, 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.