Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25406 of 2012 ====================================================== Kunal Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that earlier the grand-father of the informant saw the petitioner with informant when he was brought to the police station next morning when he promised to marry subsequently the petitioner pushed the informant from the roof of the house. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the occurrence is alleged to be on 09.05.2012 when the victim was examined by the Medical Officer of PHC on 10.05.2012 where the age of the victim has been assessed by the doctor as 18 years when no substantial injury has been found when the victim did not complain about the establishment of forceful physical relationship. Considering the fact that medical report substantially Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25406 of 2012 (2) dt.24-07-2012 2/2 negates the accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City in connection with Fatuha P.S. Case No. 105 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.