Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37085 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahesh Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged against the petitioner that he was the member of the mob when the firings were resorted to by Anugrah Yadav, Umesh Yadav and Kameshwar Yadav when Ajay Paswan succumbed to the injuries on the spot. Initially, charge-sheet was submitted against Anugrah Yadav. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that accused Anugrah Yadav has been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 50 of 1998/194 of 1998. A supplementary affidavit has been filed and in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37085 of 2012 (2) dt.10-10-2012 2/2 paragraph 3 and 4 averments have been made that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent and the investigation is still pending against the petitioner. 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 CJM, Gaya in connection with Civil Lines P.S. Case No. 95 of 1997, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.