Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6374 of 2012 ====================================================== Santu Singh & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 12-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation against the petitioners is that they called the son of the informant and subsequently his dead body was recovered from the river with bleeding from the nose and mouth. The post mortem reflects death by asphyxia due to strangulation. It is submitted that only on suspicion the accusation has been levelled that witnesses have supported these facts that the victim died due to drowning. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State submits that accusation of calling the victim by Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6374 of 2012 (3) dt.12-04-2012 2 / 2 2 these petitioners has been supported by the witnesses. Considering the same and post mort report, this court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. However, let learned court below consider the regular bail of petitioners keeping in view of the fact that accusation is basically information against the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Patahi P.S. Case No. 69 of 2009 pending in the court of the learned S.D.J.M., Sikrahana, Motihari, East Champaran. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. U.K./- (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.