Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37483 of 2012 ====================================================== Jai Ram Bhar S/O Kishore Rai Resident Of Village- Harnaha, P.S.- Dumraon, District- Buxar. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of committing theft of Idol from the temple and while doing so the accuse persons committed murder of priest of the temple. It is submitted that recovery was made from the house of Sanjay Prasad and Vijay Shankar Ram but Vijay Shankar Ram only named this petitioner and others. It is further submitted that Sanjay Prasad and Vijay Shankar Ram have been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 14544 of 2012 and 16125 of 2012 respectively by this Court. This Court sees no reason for the learned Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37483 of 2012 (2) dt.01-10-2012 2 / 2 2 court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if he surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Brahmpur (K.B.) P.S. Case No. 110 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Buxar. The statement has been made in paragraph no. 8 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent and the petitioner has not been named in the F.I.R. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.