Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44753 of 2011 Gorak Manjhi @ Gaurakh Manjhee Versus The State Of Bihar ----------- 02/ 13.01.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 17.9.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that even if prosecution story assumed to be true, then also, at best it is a case of [STATUTE] which is bailable in nature. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Gorak Manjhi @ Gaurakh Manjhee, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri S.K. Jha, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Hilsa in Karai Parsurai P.S. Case no. 82/2011. shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.