Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26013 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Jitendra Ram 2. Mantu Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.40316 of 2012 ====================================================== Surendra Kumar Ram @ Surendra Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 07-11-2012 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] and 27 of the Arms Act. The father of the informant was sleeping in the hutment. On hearing gun shot firing the informant went to see the dead body of his father when petitioner Surendra Ram having country made pistol and others armed with lathi and Farsa were seen fleeing away. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26013 of 2012 (3) dt.07-11-2012 2/2 petitioners Jitendra Ram and Mantu Ram that the post- mortem reflects only one firearm injury when they were not armed with any firearm when it is submitted on behalf of petitioner Surendra Ram that the son of the deceased subsequently admitted that he went in the morning to the place of occurrence and there is no eye witness to the occurrence and the investigation is still going on. It is further submitted that Basdeo Ram has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 6189 of 2012. This Court sees no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioners, if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of eight weeks from today in connection with Dighwara P.S. Case No. 235 of 2011 pending in the court of learned CJM, Saran at Chapra. With the aforesaid observation, these applications are disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. 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.