Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22489 of 2012 ====================================================== Prabhash Jha @ Prabhash Kumar Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner has been summoned in exercise of power under Section 319 Cr.P.C. when after examination of seventeen witnesses some of the witnesses suggested the complicity of the petitioner as one of the conspirators at whose behest the victim was killed. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was not named in the F.I.R. when others were chargesheeted and at the advance stage of trial the power under Section 319 Cr.P.C. has been exercised. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22489 of 2012 (2) dt.16-07-2012 2 / 2 2 informant that evidence has come that at the behest of this petitioner the victim was killed. Considering the fact that petitioner has been summoned in exercise of power under Section 319 Cr.P.C. when evidence of conspiracy has surfaced during trial, let the petitioner namely Prabhash Jha @ Prabhash Kumar Jha, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge, F.T.C.-III, Darbhanga in connection with Singhwara P.S. Case No. 113 of 2008, Sessions Trial No. 33 of 2010. Learned Trial Court will be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner defaults for three consecutive occasions. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 302

Statute Text:
Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. Murder. Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.