Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23999 of 2012 ====================================================== Shatrughan Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 13-09-2012 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] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the informant’s husband has some dispute with regard to the landed property with his brothers when he went to village home to see the landed property then he was killed when suspicion was raised against the FIR named accused persons. The petitioner was not named in the FIR. The only statement of Satyendra Kumar Singh recorded in para 51 of the case diary to suggest that the petitioner participated in the assault. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23999 of 2012 (3) dt.13-09-2012 2/2 petitioner that the FIR was registered on 28.04.2011 when the statement of Satyendra Kumar Singh was recorded on 12.06.2011 when the specific case of the informant in the FIR is that her husband was killed by the FIR named accused persons. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner 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 bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Sikarhatta P.S. Case No. 26 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.