Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14573 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Birendra Yadav @ Balinder Yadav 2. Shankar Yadav. 3. Sanjay Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the son of the informant, namely Umesh Paswan used to return home late since he was auto rickshaw driver. On 10.07.2010 at 8 AM the informant came to know that his son has been murdered whose dead body has been thrown in Guriawan forest when the informant rushed to find the dead body when suspicion was raised against Nagendra Singh and others with whom the deceased had some altercation earlier. The petitioners were not named in the FIR. Subsequently, during investigation, suspicion was raised against the petitioners. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant is not the eye-witness to the occurrence and virtually Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14573 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 2/2 there is no eye-witness to the occurrence and only on suspicion the petitioners are sought to be prosecuted in this case. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sherghati (Gaya) in connection with Barachatty (Mohanpur) P.S. Case No. 142 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.