Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32979 of 2012 (4) dt.04-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32979 of 2012 ====================================================== Santosh Kumar @ Laddu Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 04-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the FIR named accused persons called husband of the informant, who was a driver, for going to doctor. Subsequently, the informant’s husband did not return when the FIR was lodged against FIR named accused persons. Subsequently, the dead body of the victim was recovered when the FIR named accused persons were charge-sheeted under [STATUTE] . The petitioner’s name sprang up on suspicion on 3rd statement of the informant when she raised suspicion when the petitioner earlier gave threatening to the informant’s husband. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32979 of 2012 (4) dt.04-12-2012 It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was not named in the FIR or informant named this petitioner in her subsequent statement nor the petitioner’s parentage was given in the subsequent statement but only in 3rd statement suspicion has been raised against the petitioner. A statement has been made in para 16 that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Muzaffarpur in connection with Sakra P.S. Case No. 229 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.