Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30853 of 2012 (2) dt.23-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30853 of 2012 ====================================================== Mohan Mahto @ Mahton .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 23.08.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 3.7.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Admittedly, first information report was registered against unknown but in course of investigation statements of the informant as well as her son were recorded under section 164 Cr.P.C in which informant’s son disclosed the names of the assailants including the petitioner. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that petitioner is co-villager of the informant and had he participated in the alleged crime, he would have certainly been named by informant’s son but after five months of the alleged occurrence, statements of the informant as well as her son were recorded under section 164 Cr.P.C. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Mohan Mahto @ Mahton, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in S. Kamal P.S. Case no. 66/2010. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.