Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17737 of 2012 (3) dt.01-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17737 of 2012 ====================================================== Uttam Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 01-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that for the petty dispute the petitioner slapped the victim when the victim committed suicide. It is submitted that in the FIR, it is admitted by the informant that the victim was being given medical assistance in the hospital when the informant took the victim to Bokaro for treatment where the victim died on 2.7.2011. Considering the fact that the medical assistance was given to the victim and the victim died at the informant’s place, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of twelve weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17737 of 2012 (3) dt.01-08-2012 Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with Bariarpur P.S. Case No. 72 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 306

Statute Text:
Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code. Abetting the Commission of suicide. If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.