Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9087 of 2012 ====================================================== Harendra Prasad & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-03-2012 Petitioner No. 1 being husband and petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 being parents of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing daughter of the informant, after five years of the marriage by poison, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that victim died due to some post surgical complications. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant privilege of anticipatory bail to petitioner No. 1 namely Harendra Prasad. The application for bail of petitioner No. 1 stands rejected. So far as petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 are concerned, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9087 of 2012 (2) dt.27-03-2012 2 / 2 2 since thrust of accusation is against the husband being petitioner No. 1, let petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 namely Dhorha Prasad, Kalawati Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Jogapatti P.S. Case No. 166 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 328

Statute Text:
Section 328 of the Indian Penal Code. Administering stupefying drug with intent to cause hurt, etc. Whoever administers to or causes to be taken by any person any poison or any stupefying, intoxicating or unwholesome drug, or other thing with intent to cause hurt to such person, or with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of an offence or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.