Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8801 of 2012 ====================================================== Basanti Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the daughter of the informant was married with Ravindra Singh two years back to the occurrence when she was being tortured. The dead body was recovered from the field in the back of the school which was identified by the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no witness has deposed against this petitioner, who is a lady, and her husband has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 44572 of 2011. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8801 of 2012 (3) dt.05-07-2012 2/2 I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Kachhawa P.S. Case No. 26 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj, District – Rohtas at Sasaram. It is expected from the learned court below to dispose of the regular bail application of the petitioner preferably on the same day. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.