Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11588 of 2012 ====================================================== Jahari Devi .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that when the wife of the informant was protesting for pelting stones six F.I.R. named accused persons assaulted the wife of the informant who subsequently died on 30.10.2011. The fardbeyan of the informant was recorded on 31.10.2011 when it came to be registered as police case on 04.11.2011 and occurrence took place on 18.10.2011 when the deceased filed the written report on the date of occurrence on 18.10.2011 itself where she did not name the petitioner and named only three other persons. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11588 of 2012 (2) dt.06-04-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Sasaram (Mufsil)P.S. Case No. 1024 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. Sasaram, Rohtas, 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: 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.