Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17979 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ajit Sharma 2. Uttam Sharma. 3. Bhim Sharma. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.18916 of 2012 ====================================================== Ranjeet Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 27 of the Arms Act. In the FIR, there is specific accusation against Ranjit Sharma to initially fire by rifle at Subhash Sharma and thereafter others resorted to indiscriminate firing. It is submitted by learned Sr. counsel for the petitioners that some of the petitioners are employed outside the state and some are the students and in para 15 of the petition a statement has been made that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. It is further submitted that the police did not find the accusation true Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17979 of 2012 (2) dt.14-05-2012 2/2 against them and they were not sent up for trial when other accused Birendra Sharma and Amrendra Sharma have been charge sheeted who have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 29540 of 2011. Considering the fact that during investigation the accusation has been found false by the police and charge sheeted accused have been granted bail, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Karpi (Bansi) P.S. Case No. 155 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.