Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27922 of 2012 ====================================================== Sonu Kumar Gupta @ Sonu Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16-08-2012 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 that the victim, brother of the informant, went in the company of this petitioner and three others to attend marriage ceremony. Subsequently, the dead body of the brother of the informant was recovered. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on suspicion the accusation has been levelled when there is no eye witness to the occurrence and considering the similar accusation others have been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27922 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 2/2 Nos. 31402 of 2011 and 24243 of 2012. This Court sees no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Malsalami P.S. Case No. 93 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City. 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.