Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25406 of 2011 (4) dt.31-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25406 of 2011 ====================================================== Ranjan Singh, S/O-Jodhan Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA) 4 31-01-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being husband of the deceased is languishing in jail custody since 24.09.2010 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and ¾ of Dowry Prohibition Act but after investigation, police submitted charge-sheet under [STATUTE] . The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that deceased died of her ailment but subsequently, the informant lodged this false case in anger and, as a matter of fact, no such occurrence as alleged in the first information report did ever take place. Regard being had to the facts and circumstances of the case as well as submissions of the parties, I am not inclined Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25406 of 2011 (4) dt.31-01-2012 to release the petitioner on bail. Accordingly, his prayer for bail in connection with Sessions Trial No. 234 of 2011 arising out of Narpatganj P.S. Case No. 140 of 2010 pending in the court of Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court-IV, Araria is, hereby, rejected. However, learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court-IV, Araria is directed to expedite the trial of the petitioner and try to dispose of the same as early as possible. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.