Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5778 of 2012 ====================================================== Dhuri Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 14.1.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing forceful physical relationship. The FIR has been lodged by the mother of the victim. In the statement under section 164 Cr.P.C., the victim has supported the accusation where she got her age recorded as ten years but the medical report suggests that the victim is aged about 18 years and she was examined by the doctor on the very next day of the occurrence, however, the doctors did not find any sign of commission of rape. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5778 of 2012 (2) dt.02-03-2012 2 / 2 2 each to the satisfaction of Additional Sessions Judge II, Barh in S.Tr. No. 618 of 2011 arising out of Barh P.S. Case no. 11 of 2011. Anil/- (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.