Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37508 of 2012 ====================================================== Shailendra Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 12-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within few months of the marriage since the petitioner had illicit relationship with his sister-in-law. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant has retracted from initial version and filed petition to that effect before the learned court below stating that the victim died due to the snake bite. In view of this Court, it is not a fit case Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37508 of 2012 (2) dt.12-10-2012 2/2 for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in connection with Tariyani P.S. Case No. 91 of 2010 pending in the court of learned SDJM, Sheohar at Sitamarhi. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner keeping in view of the retracted version of the informant. 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.