Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40796 of 2012 ====================================================== Droupadi @ Droupati Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the informant is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the informant was married with the son of the petitioner in the year 2006 and subsequently demand of dowry of Rs. 50,000/- was made when the informant was administered poison by her husband, this petitioner and two other persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that injury report reflects only abrasion simple in nature when no sign of poisoning was found. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the informant, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40796 of 2012 (2) dt.23-11-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, West Muzaffarpur in connection with Kudhani P.S. Case No. 81 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 328

Statute Text:
Section 328 of the Indian Penal Code. Administering stupefying drug with intent to cause hurt, etc. Whoever administers to or causes to be taken by any person any poison or any stupefying, intoxicating or unwholesome drug, or other thing with intent to cause hurt to such person, or with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of an offence or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.