Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19905 of 2012 ====================================================== Rakesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 21-06-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that this petitioner and Ashok Sudan took the husband of the informant on 05.07.2011 when Satya Narayan informed the informant about the dead body of the husband lying in Motipur Police Station. Subsequently the informant suspected that the petitioner and others have hand in the killing of her husband. From going through the case diary, learned counsel for the State submits that petitioner also advanced certain money for getting employment to the deceased but does not deny that except circumstantial nature of evidence, there is nothing found during investigation against the petitioner. It appears that Satya Narayan Kumar has been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19905 of 2012 (4) dt.21-06-2012 2 / 2 2 granted bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 893 of 2012. I see no reason for learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Brahampura P.S. Case No. 122 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through Fax to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.