Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18336 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Manohar Sao 2. Kalawati Devi 3. Jhunnu Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 11-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents and brother of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . On recovery of a dead body the FIR was lodged by chaukdar where it is alleged that the victim was assaulted by husband when she consumed poison and the dead body was being taken for cremation but when alarm was raised then the accused persons left the dead body and fled away. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that even assuming the accusation at best offence under [STATUTE] is made out against Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18336 of 2012 (4) dt.11-09-2012 2/2 the petitioners and subsequently the informant has retracted from his initial version. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim, who, as per learned counsel for the petitioners, will surrender within a period of six weeks, 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 ACJM, Danapur in connection with Rani Talab P.S. Case No. 47 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioners will be accepted on surrender of the husband of the victim. 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.