Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30764 of 2012 (2) dt.13-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 30764 of 2012 ====================================================== Deepu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 2 13-08-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This is a petition for grant of regular bail in a case under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the victim after delivering a child has alleged that she was raped by this petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that she was aged about 16 years. It is further submitted that the occurrence took place about more than nine months ago when she was sufficient time to lodge an First Information Report at the earliest even father and mother of the victim must known about her pregnancy but they also did not file any case. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the petitioner above named is ordered to 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 the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa, Nalanda in connection with Islampur P. S. Case No. 124 of 2012. Kundan/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.