Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1342 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kamala Devi 2. Lalia Devi 3. Durgawati Devi. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.2180 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Prem Kumar Patel 2. Shri Kishun Patel 3. Mukesh Patel 4. Purushottam Patel. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== 2 17-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The informant’s minor child went missing on 14.04.2011 subsequently on 15.04.2011 his dead body was found in maize field when the F.I.R. was lodged against unknown subsequently the protest petition was filed by the informant on 14.05.2011 wherein it was alleged that one Amit and Arbind were giving threats to the informant but in the subsequent statement the suspicion was raised against these petitioners being Tantrik to have offered the child to the goddess. The basis of the suspicion is only the statement of the father of Amit and Arbind who conveyed that he saw Prem Kumar Patel carrying the boy in the night. This disclosure by the father of those two suspected persons inspired no confidence since it was not disclosed by him when the search for the boy was made and when the F.I.R. was lodged. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the 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, Siwan in connection with Daraunda P.S. Case No. 49/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.