Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8693 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Das @ Manoj Kumar Deas .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 26.12.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of attempting to establish forceful physical relationship with the grand daughter of the informant. It is submitted that even assuming the accusation in the FIR, no case under [STATUTE] is made out and at best a case under [STATUTE] is made out. 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 each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Katihar Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8693 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2 / 2 2 in Katihar Town P.S. Case No.757 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.