Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34755 of 2011 ====================================================== Sanjeet Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 07-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 16.06.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the wife of the deceased in the first information report that this petitioner slit the neck of her husband whereas it is submitted that from para 2 of the case- diary it appears that the police reached at the place of occurrence none was reached to get the fard-beyan was recorded when the FIR was lodged on the next day of the occurrence. Para 4 of the case-diary the statement of the informant, who suggest that she subsequently reached to the place of occurrence when the deceased suggested that this petitioner slit the neck and similar is the statement of the cousin of the deceased Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34755 of 2011 (4) dt.07-03-2012 2/2 recorded in para 6 of the case-diary, who has stated that the informant reached to the place of occurrence subsequent to the occurrence and he also came to know about the involvement of the petitioner through the deceased. Admittedly the informant or the cousin of the deceased is not the eye witness to the occurrence. Considering the accusation levelled against the petitioner, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner for the present in connection with Warisnagar P.S. Case No. 192 of 2010 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. 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.