Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14751 of 2012 ====================================================== Lalti Devi .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother-in-law of husband of deceased is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of informant by administering poison after 08 years of marriage. It is submitted that victim used to remain ill since long for which she was given medical assistance and the husband informed about illness to the informant also which the informant admitted in prosecution report. It is further submitted that investigation against the petitioner is still pending. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14751 of 2012 (2) dt.23-04-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Madanpur P.S. Case No. 209 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Aurangabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.