Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37643 of 2012 ====================================================== Kuwara Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 12-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after five years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation is omnibus and general when the husband of the victim is in custody and others have been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 33185 of 2012. I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner, if the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37643 of 2012 (2) dt.12-10-2012 2/2 petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Barhariya P.S. Case No. 69 of 2012 pending in the court of learned CJM, Siwan. It is expected from the learned court below to dispose of the bail application of the petitioner preferably on the same day. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.