Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12939 of 2012 ====================================================== Pushpa Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 16-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] , 27 of the Arms Act and 3/4 of Explosive Substances Act. The accusation is of killing the son and daughter-in-law of the informant when the firing was resorted. It is submitted by learned counsels for the State and the informant that during investigation it has come that it was this petitioner who hired the killers. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that as per the investigation the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12939 of 2012 (3) dt.16-07-2012 2/2 was not the assailant of the deceased and the present informant has filed Complaint Case No. 2362 of 2011 where she alleged the accusation against her daughter and son-in-law. Considering the nature of accusation in the background of series of land dispute between the parties from before and the other accused Mani Bhushan Mishra @ Tuttu has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 44391 of 2011, I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Chakia P.S. Case No. 245 of 2011 pending in the court of learned CJM, East Champaran, Motihari. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.