Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33868 of 2012 (3) dt.05-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33868 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sushila Devi W/O Baleshwar Sao 2. Baleshwar Sao S/O Late Aklu Sao .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 3 05-10-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners being parents-in-law of the deceased are in jail custody since 23.05.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Admittedly, the marriage of deceased had taken place with son of petitioners three years ago but deceased died within three years of her marriage in other than normal circumstances. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that husband of the deceased has already been sent to judicial custody and no specific overt-act has been attributed against these petitioners. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioners be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33868 of 2012 (3) dt.05-10-2012 each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda in connection with Ashthawan P.S. Case No. 64 of 2012. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.