Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10933 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shiv Lal Hansda 2. Sushil Murmu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in connection with Narpatganj P.S. Case No. 194 of 2004 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria. The accusation is of entering into the house of the informant and pressing the neck of the mother of the informant as a result of which she died. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant subsequently retracted from his initial version and stated that he could not recognize the petitioners on the date of occurrence. Since the case was instituted in the year 2004, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10933 of 2012 (2) dt.04-04-2012 2/2 the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks keeping in view that the informant has retracted from his initial version. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (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.