Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24247 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24247 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Tara Bhushan Mandal, 2. Anita Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that when an altercation was going on between the mother of the informant and daughter in law, the step sister of the informant and petitioner no. 1 intervened when it is alleged that the petitioners assaulted the step sister of the informant with iron bucket and lathi, as a result of which she died on the spot. It is submitted that the postmortem report reflects no external or internal injury when viscera has been preserved. Considering the accusation not being corroborated by the postmortem report, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24247 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 learned Court below within a period of twelve weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka in connection with Amarpur P.S. Case No. 189 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 304

Statute Text:
Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder, If act by which the death is caused is done with intention of causing death, etc. Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.