Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24321 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24321 of 2012 ====================================================== Sakuntla Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being a nurse in Sadar hospital, Lakhisarai is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of getting delivery of the child of the daughter of the informant done when the child was born alive but the daughter of the informant died. It is submitted that the victim was earlier treated in private nursing home and later she was brought to the sadar hospital. It is further submitted that the victim died due to excessive bleeding. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of twelve weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24321 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Lakhisarai P.S. Case No. 388 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 304

Statute Text:
Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder, If act by which the death is caused is done with intention of causing death, etc. Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.