IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.54859 of 2007 DHARAMENDAR RAI Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 03/ 12.05.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Petitioner is an accused for offences punishable under sections 341, 323, 448 and 376/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The allegation is that five persons including the petitioner came to house of the informant and three of them including the petitioner stood outside the house, whereas, two of the accused persons forcibly went inside the house and caught the informant while she was sleeping and, thereafter, both of them committed rape upon her one by one. It is also alleged that when the relatives of the informant came there, the petitioner and others assaulted them. The informant has also stated that sometime back the petitioner entered her house at midnight with an intention to commit the same offence, but due to timely intervention of her father-in- law, she could be saved and in that course her father-in-law and mother-in- law were also assaulted by him. In the said circumstances, this petition for bail is rejected with liberty to the petitioner to move again after completing one year in custody. ( S. N. Hussain, J. ) - 2 -