Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38072 of 2012 ====================================================== Seeta Devi .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the sister-in-law of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant who was married with Jitendra Singh. The informant went to the in-laws house on receiving telephonic information and found his daughter’s dead body with injuries when accusation was levelled against the husband Jitendra Singh and the husband of this petitioner. The petitioner was not named in the F.I.R. and her name sprang up on the statement of the victim’s daughter that this petitioner also caught hold of limb of the victim when assault was made. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the statement of the victim’s Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38072 of 2012 (2) dt.04-10-2012 2 / 2 2 daughter was recorded on 10.05.2012 after 25 days of registration of the First Information Report when the First Information Report was registered on 15.04.2012. Considering delayed implication of the petitioner, let the petitioner above named be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Sanjhauli P.S. Case No. 19 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Bikramganj, Rohtas, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The bail bonds of the petitioner shall be accepted on affidavit being filed before the learned court below that the petitioner will co-operate in investigation and the said affidavit shall be transmitted by the learned court below to the concerned Investigating Officer of the present case. Non co-operation in investigation by the petitioner will give liberty to the prosecution to file an application for cancellation of bail of petitioner. U.K./- (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.