Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38507 of 2012 ====================================================== Kusum Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 09-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after two years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that husband of the victim has also lodged a case against the informant’s side being Maner P.S. Case No. 275 of 2011 levelling the accusation under [STATUTE] . Admittedly, the case was lodged by the husband of the victim subsequent to the present case. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim, let the above named petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38507 of 2012 (2) dt.09-10-2012 2/2 be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or 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 Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 261 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.