Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 5203 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ranjeet Kumar Singh @ Ranjeet Singh S/O Late Jai Krishna Singh R/O Vill Budh Nagara, P.S.Nanpur, Distt-Sitamarhi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.6586 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Amrendra Nath @ Amar Nath Yadav S/O Late Devendra Yadav Resident Of Village- Chak Mahila, Police Station- Sitamarhi, District- Sitamarhi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2/ 23-02-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner Amrendra Nath @ Amar Nath Yadav seeks permission to withdraw his application since he has already surrendered. Permission is accorded. The application on behalf of petitioner Amrendra @ Amar Nath Yadav is dismissed as withdrawn. The petitioner Ranjeet Kumar Singh @ Ranjeet Singh is apprehending his arrest in a case Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5203 of 2012 (2) dt.23-02-2012 2/3 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is submitted that the victim went traceless on 13.07.2011 for which a sanaha was lodged in which the petitioner was not named. Subsequently on 5.8.2011 the informant received a letter from one Ramua and came to know that this petitioner and Amrendra killed the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the said Ramua has not been examined by the police and when the letter of Ramua was received by the informant on 5.8.2011 then there was no occasion for the informant to lodge the present case on 17.8.2011. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR and suspicious nature of accusation, let petitioner Ranjeet Kumar Singh @ Ranjeet Singh be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in connection with Sitamarhi Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5203 of 2012 (2) dt.23-02-2012 3/3 P.S. Case No. 550 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.