Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44340 of 2011 ====================================================== Sita Devi @ Shita Devi Wife of Basudeo Singh, resident of Village+PS- Kartaha, District-Vaishali .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. ANJANA PRAKASH ORAL ORDER 2/ 10-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner seeks anticipatory bail in a case instituted for the offence under [STATUTE] . Considering that the petitioner is the mother-in-law of the deceased and there is no specific overt act alleged against her, it is ordered that the event of surrender/arrest of the petitioner, named above, within four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order in connection with Kartaha P.S. Case No.30 of 2011, she shall be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.5,000/- (five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each or any other surety to be fixed by the court below to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur, subject to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44340 of 2011 (2) dt.10-02-2012 2 / 2 2 conditions as laid down under sections 438(2) Cr. P. C. and (i) That one of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner, who will give an affidavit giving genealogy as to how she is related with the petitioner. The bailors will undertake to furnish information to the court about any change in the address of the petitioner, (ii) That the petitioner will give an undertaking that she will receive the police papers on the given date and be present on date fixed for charge and if she fails to do so on two given dates and delays the trial in any manner, her bail will be liable to be cancelled for reasons of misuse, and (iii) That the petitioner will be well represented on each date and if she fails to do so on two consecutive dates, her bail will be liable to be cancelled. JA/- (Anjana Prakash, 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.