Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 5111 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Jamila Khatoon W/O Late Quddies R/O Moh Zafarganj, P.S. Town Jehanabad, Distt-Jehanabad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Surendra Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Madhuranand Jha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother-in-law of the deceased is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . On hearing the rumor that the informant’s brother had been administered poison. The informant took the victim to hospital and on the way to the hospital the victim conveyed that this petitioner and other in-laws family members assaulted and administered poison. The post-mortem report reflects no external injury and the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5111 of 2012 (2) dt.23-02-2012 2/2 informant has subsequently retracted from his earlier version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Konch P.S. Case No. 12 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 328

Statute Text:
Section 328 of the Indian Penal Code. Administering stupefying drug with intent to cause hurt, etc. Whoever administers to or causes to be taken by any person any poison or any stupefying, intoxicating or unwholesome drug, or other thing with intent to cause hurt to such person, or with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of an offence or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.