Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19430 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Naresh Sahani 2. Shivjanki Devi @ Sijanki Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 03-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner no.2 has already been granted anticipatory bail. The petitioner no.1 being the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in Kalyanpur P.S. Case No. 155 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur. It is alleged that the daughter of the informant committed suicide since she was being assaulted by the husband and mother-in-law of the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the postmortem report reflects no external injury to suggest the assault and mother-in-law has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court. It is also submitted that the informant has subsequently retracted from his initial version. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19430 of 2012 (3) dt.03-08-2012 2/2 This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner being the husband of the victim. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner no.1 preferably on the same day if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks without being prejudiced by the order of this Court. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 306

Statute Text:
Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code. Abetting the Commission of suicide. If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.