Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13271 of 2012 ====================================================== Budhni Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 20-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the second wife of the husband of the deceased is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after 16 years of the marriage. The petitioner was married with the husband of the deceased about six years prior to the occurrence. It is alleged that earlier also attempt was made to put the victim on fire. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no specific accusation against the petitioner and petitioner is a lady. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13271 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 2/2 named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sherghati in connection with Dobhi P.S. Case No. 253 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.