Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20212 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pano Devi 2. Chaitu Mukhiya .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after three years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are aunt and uncle of the husband of the deceased when petitioner no. 2 is not named in the first information report. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the deceased, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20212 of 2012 (2) dt.10-07-2012 2/2 named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in connection with Dumra P.S. Case No. 87 of 2008, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The learned court below will be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioners if they default for three consecutive occasions. DKS/ (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.