Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30429 of 2012 (3) dt.09-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30429 of 2012 ====================================================== Mani Kant Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 09.10.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is named in the first information report but according to the prosecution case itself, name of this petitioner came in this case in the extra judicial confession of co-accused Baby Kumari, who happens to be wife of the deceased and she disclosed that she had illicit relation with the petitioner and it was the petitioner who committed murder of the deceased. Admittedly, none has seen the actual killing of the deceased and prior to institution of the present case, the informant had filed Sanha bearing Sanha no. 396 and in the aforesaid Sanha he had not disclosed the so-called illicit relation with the petitioner and moreover, co-accused Baby Kumari has already been granted privilege of bail. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Mani Kant Yadav, 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, Bhagalpur in Industrial P.S. Case no. 13/2012. 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.