Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9921 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Munni Khatoon 2. Hassena Khatoon 3. Maida Khatoon. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the sister-in-laws of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in connection with Adapur P.S. Case No. 94 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Raxaul, Motihari. The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant by strangulation. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant is not the eye-witness to the occurrence and the father of the husband has been granted regular by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 10005 of 2012. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners, preferably on the same day if Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9921 of 2012 (2) dt.02-04-2012 2/2 the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks. 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 petitioners. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 315

Statute Text:
Section 315 of the Indian Penal Code. Act done with intent to prevent a child being born alive, or to cause it to die after its birth. Whoever before the birth of any child does any act with the intention of thereby preventing that child from being born alive or causing it to die after its birth, and does by such act prevent that child from being born alive, or causes it to die after its birth, shall, if such act be not caused in good faith for the purpose of saving the life of the mother, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both.