Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32564 of 2012 ====================================================== Dinesh Yadav @ Chhotu Mistri @ Chhotu Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.33633 of 2012 ====================================================== Pradeep Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 08-11-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case initially registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . when subsequently [STATUTE] . was also added. Informant’s driver along with auto-rickshaw went missing when the First Information Report was lodged against auto-rickshaw driver Badri Ram when subsequently the dead body of the victim was recovered. Petitioners were not named in the F.I.R. but their names sprang up on confession of the co- accused Naresh Yadav who admitted that the petitioners assisted in dismantling the auto-rickshaw. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that even as per confession of Naresh Yadav, there is no accusation of killing the victim and except confession of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32564 of 2012 (3) dt.08-11-2012 2 / 2 2 Naresh Yadav, there is nothing against the petitioners. The statements have been made in para 10 and 23 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Lakhisarai(Kabaiya) P.S. Case No. 121 of 2012. 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.