Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10688 of 2012 ====================================================== Mannu Manjhi & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 28-06-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged in the F.I.R. that informant’s brother went to sleep on the roof of the co-villager Ganesh Manjhi and on the next day his dead body was recovered with several injuries when head was chopped off. The F.I.R. was lodged against unknown. The name of the petitioners subsequently sprang up on the statement of the father of the victim that petitioners and one person came to call the victim on the alleged date of occurrence and the victim was seen in the company of daughter of Jugeshwar Manjhi and at whose behest these petitioners killed the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that admittedly the informant is not the eye witness Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10688 of 2012 (4) dt.28-06-2012 2 / 2 2 nor informant has stated that these petitoners came to call the victim nor this fact was stated by the informant in the subsequent statement. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation developed subsequently by the father of the victim, let the petitioners namely 1. Mannu Manjhi 2. Santosh Manjhi 3. Chhotu Manjhi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka in connection with Banka(Barahat) P.S. Case No. 131 of 2009. 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.