Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31498 of 2012 (2) dt.31-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31498 of 2012 ====================================================== Sita Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.32292 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Krishna Bihari Singh, 2. Krishna Murari alias Krishna Murari Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 31-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being wife and the sons of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Written report was lodged by the police officer to the effect that on 29.1.2012 he came to know that since the petitioners assaulted the victim, he consumed poison and ultimately died. It is submitted that the written report was submitted on 13.2.2012 which came to be registered as police case on 20.2.2012 and it was transmitted to the learned court below on 24.2.2012. The manner in which the police officer as acted in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31498 of 2012 (2) dt.31-08-2012 setting the process of law in motion on getting information in a cognizable offence is highly depreciable. Considering the delayed lodging of the case and suspicious nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned SDJM, Bikramganj in connection with Dawath P.S. Case No. 12 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.