Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15222 of 2012 ====================================================== Jagdish Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 16-08-2012 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] . It is alleged that the informant’s son initially abducted one Dezi Kumari and in retaliation to that it is alleged that all the accused persons including the petitioner killed the son of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on suspicion the accusation has been levelled and the petitioner is 80 years of age and the other accused Dhirendra Yadav has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 24694 of 2011. This Court sees no reason for learned Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15222 of 2012 (3) dt.16-08-2012 2/2 court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Narpatganj P.S. Case No. 102 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.