Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4880 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shravan Kumar, S/O Ram Deo Mahto, Resident of Village - Khadiyahi, P.S- Bibhutipur, District- Samastipur. 2. Butni Devi, W/O Ram Deo Mahto, Resident of Village - Khadiyahi, P.S- Bibhutipur, District- Samastipur. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State of Bihar. .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 15.02.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the husband and his mother are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The informant lodged the case on the information that the victim was done to death. The marriage was performed about 10 years prior to the occurrence. The victim was issueless. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that post-mortem reflects no injury (Annexure-3). Considering the fact that the post-mortem Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4880 of 2012 (2) dt.15-02-2012 2/2 negates the accusation levelled by the informant, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rosera, District - Samastipur in connection with Bibhutipur P.S. Case No. 169 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.