Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19968 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Pabitra Mahto@Ram Pavitar Mahto & Ors .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 21-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . Initially the complaint was filed on 09.09.2008 which subsequently came to be registered as police case alleging that petitioners and others took the husband of the informant on 26.08.2008 but he did not return when it is alleged that petitioners killed the husband of the informant as these petitioners informed that he met with an accident and being treated in the hospital. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation the case was found false and final form was submitted as the police found the case of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19968 of 2012 (3) dt.21-06-2012 2 / 2 2 road accident, but subsequently on protest, cognizance has been taken. A statement has been made in para 14 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the delayed lodging of the complaint and the police finding the case false during investigation, let the petitioners namely 1. Ram Pabitra Mahto @ Ram Pavitar Mahto 2. Ram Chandra Mahto 3. Rajesh Mahto @ Rajesh Kumar Mahto, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Rosera, Samastipur in connection with G.R. No. 714 of 2008, arising out of Rosera P.S. Case No. 130 of 2008. Shageer/- (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.