Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33066 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Indu Devi W/O Maheshwar Poddar R/O Village - Kulhariya, P.S. - Parbatta, District - Khagaria 2. Seema Devi W/O Sanjeev Kumar R/O Village - Kulhariya, P.S. - Parbatta, District - Khagaria 3. Ranju Devi W/O Pawan Poddar R/O Village - Kulhariya, P.S. - Parbatta, District - Khagaria .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN SINHA ORAL ORDER 2 05-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are stated to be accused in a Police case under [STATUTE] . The victim is stated to have been married four years earlier and had a minor child of three years. As per the First Information Report she was burnt in her matrimonial home. The earlier application for anticipatory bail was withdrawn on 26.11.2008. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that subsequently the husband of the deceased and the father-in- law have been acquitted in the Sessions trial. The Court has been taken through the judgment of the sessions Court in a serious trial under [STATUTE] . The judgment is barely in one page, the rest only referring to the facts. The Court refrains from any Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33066 of 2012 (2) dt.05-09-2012 2 / 2 2 observations with regard to the same which may prejudice the petitioner. Suffice it to hold that on the own showing of the petitioner they fall in the category of absconder after the rejection of the earlier prayer for anticipatory bail. If they want the benefit of the acquittal, that is an aspect to be considered in regular bail only. The application is dismissed. P. Kumar/- (Navin Sinha, 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.