Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38895 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Manoj Jha 2. Ranjit Kumar @ Chhotu Jha, resident of village-Bishwanathpur, P.S. Dumra, District-Sitamarhi .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance: For the Petitioner : Mr. Ashok Kumar Jha For the Opposite Party : Mr. Shantanu Kumar, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 03. 06-02-2012 Heard the parties. The Petitioners are in custody in connection with Dumra P.S. Case No. 318 of 2010 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] and subsequently [STATUTE] added to the charges. The allegation against these petitioners and other accused is of abducting the husband of the informant who is a deaf and dumb person and thereafter putting him to death. It is alleged that the occurrence has taken place because the informant did not succumb to the pressure exerted by the accused of the present case to compromise the earlier case arising from Dumra P.S. Case No. 5 of 2009 which has been instituted for the abduction and murder of the minor son of the informant and which is at trial stage. Learned counsel for the petitioners with reference to the statements made in paragraph 10 of the application submits that the petitioners herein being in custody since 2009, certainly the death of the husband of the informant has not been at the hands of these petitioners. It is further submitted that the dispute is between the informant and one co-accused Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38895 of 2011 (3) dt.06-02-2012 2 Amresh Kumar and only on suspicion as these petitioners were accused in the earlier case that they have also been involved in the present case. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and having considered the materials on record, let the petitioners, Manoj Jha and Ranjit Kumar @ Chhotu Jha be released on bail upon each one of them furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in connection with Dumra P.S. Case No. 318 of 2010 subject to the condition that the petitioners shall ensure their representation before the court below on each and every date fixed in the case and the failure on the part of the petitioners to ensure their representation on two consecutive dates fixed without reasonable explanation to the satisfaction of the court below shall entitle the court concerned to cancel the bail bonds of the defaulting petitioner and to take him into custody. S.Sb/- (Jyoti Saran, 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.