Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17038 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Badri Mandal 2. Soni Mandal .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 20-07-2012 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] . It is alleged that the accused Balbir Mandal has illicit relationship with the wife of the informant’s brother when Balbir Mandal and wife of the informant’s brother earlier also eloped. Subsequently while they eloped at that time the dead body of the informant’s brother was found buried when it was suspected that the petitioners being the maternal uncles of Balbir Mandal assisted Balbir Mandal in committing the offence. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17038 of 2012 (3) dt.20-07-2012 2/2 is against Balbir Mandal and the wife of the informant’s brother and the suspicious nature of the accusation, let the above 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 Nanpur P.S. Case No. 234 of 2011, 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.