Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39481 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Anil Hembram 2. Shukar Hansada 3. Naika Hansada 4. Kishori Rabidas .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-10-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] ., 27 of the Arms Act, ¾ of the Explosive Substances Act and Section 17 of Criminal Law Amendment Act. It is alleged that when the Officer-in-charge of Jhajha P.S. received information that house of the Mukhiya and his brother was attacked and the Mukhiya and others were killed then the informant along with police party reached at the P.O. when the firing was resorted on the police party as a result of which police inspector Kapildeo Kumar died due to the gunshot injury and five vehicles were also damaged. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39481 of 2012 (2) dt.17-10-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners that others have been granted bail whereas some of the accused have been acquitted and only on mere suspicion the accusation has been levelled in the present case. This Court is not inclined to interfere only because the case was instituted in 2003. But this Court finds no reason for learned Court below not to give the privilege of regular bail to the petitioners, if the petitioners surrender within a period of eight weeks, provided the petitioner have no serious criminal antecedent in connection with Khaira P.S. Case No. 66 of 2003, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamui. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. Shageer/- (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.