Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22646 of 2012 ====================================================== Jai Prakash Prasad & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-06-2012 Petitioners being Guard and Accountant of the school are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(IX)(X) of the SC. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that one Gautam Manjhi being Principal-cum-Director of Kasturba Balika Vidyalaya, where the daughter of the informant was student and residing in the hostel when the Principal being a man of questionable character, established forceful physical relationship with the daughter of the informant and when the informant came to met her daughter she was not allowed by the petitioners to meet her who subsequently died on 01.08.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that a UD case was registered which suggests that Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22646 of 2012 (2) dt.27-06-2012 2 / 2 2 the present informant who is mother of the victim, was present when the UD case was registered. Thereafter on 05.08.2011 a case was lodged against the doctor under which the victim was being treated for not treating the victim properly and thereafter the present complaint was lodged on 24.11.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 11.12.2011. It is further submitted that postmortem report reflects no external injury and postmortem substantially negates the accusation levelled in the complaint. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against Gautam Manjhi who has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 11719 of 2012, let the petitioners namely Jai Prakash Prasad 2. Amlesh Kumar, 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, Gopalganj in connection with Manjhagarh P.S. Case No. 212 of 2011, corresponding to G.R. No. 3658 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.