Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9757 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Pandey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in connection with Pipra Kothi P.S. Case No. 259 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, East Champaran. The accusation is of killing the niece of the informant within few months of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during investigation the independent witnesses have not supported the accusation against the petitioner and the informant has retracted from his initial version. It is a fit ground for consideration of regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9757 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2/2 With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.