Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11686 of 2012 (3) dt.09-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11686 of 2012 ====================================================== Lalu Paswan, S/O-Ram Chandra Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 3 09-05-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is in jail custody since 23.06.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The date of marriage of the petitioner with deceased has not been disclosed either in the first information report or in the entire case diary but in spite of that the police instituted the case under [STATUTE] . Moreover, in course of investigation, witnesses stated that after marriage deceased was residing at her parental home and she was forcibly taken away by the petitioner before the alleged occurrence and after that she consumed poison as a result of which she died. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11686 of 2012 (3) dt.09-05-2012 two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dalsingsarai, Samastipur in connection with Dalsingsarai P.S. Case No. 108 of 2010. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 304

Statute Text:
Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder, If act by which the death is caused is done with intention of causing death, etc. Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.