Case Facts:
Patna High Court CR. WJC No.254 of 2012 (2) dt.12-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Writ No.254 of 2012 ====================================================== Subesh Rai @ Sibesh Rai .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar Through The Chief Secretary & Ors. .... .... Respondents ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-09-2012 The petitioner is informant of Kankarbagh P.S.case No.231 of 2011 dated 10.07.2011 instituted under [STATUTE] . In the present writ petition, a prayer has been made to direct the respondent no.4 to properly investigate the aforesaid case. Learned counsel for the State submits that in the present case, the named accused, namely, Chandra Bhushan Choudhary and Abhishek have been released on bail by the court below. The final report has yet not been submitted by the police in terms of Section 173(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as the chemical report has not been received from the Forensic Science Laboratory. In that view of the matter, I am not inclined to pass any order regarding the manner in which the case is to be investigated. However, the investigating agency must promptly investigate the case and submit its report to the court concerned. The police Patna High Court CR. WJC No.254 of 2012 (2) dt.12-09-2012 would submit such report as it thinks proper in the facts and circumstances of the case and on the out come of the result of investigation. With this observation, the writ petition is disposed of. B.Kr./- (Ashwani 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.