Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8150 of 2012 ====================================================== Awadhesh Ram & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-03-2012 Petitioners are languishing in custody since 12.11.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioners and two others called the husband of the informant on 14.07.2011 at 10:00 A.M. and thereafter the husband did not return and when the informant went to their house she came to know that victim was taken to somewhere else and when the accused returned home but the husband did not come then the informant got suspicion that her husband has been kidnapped and killed. It is also alleged that informant’s husband was seen in the company of petitioners by several witnesses. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that on 14.07.2011 it is alleged that the victim went in the company of the petitioners but the F.I.R. has been lodged Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8150 of 2012 (2) dt.16-03-2012 2 / 2 2 on 07.08.2011 and the petitioner got suspicion on 31.07.2011 itself that her husband has been killed but such inordinate delay has not been explained. It is further submitted that the dead body has not been recovered till date and investigation is complete. Considering the delayed lodging of the F.I.R. and suspicious nature of accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Awadhesh Ram 2. Santosh Pandit, be released on bail on furnishing 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, East Champaran at Motihari in connection with Pipra Kothi P.S. Case No. 183 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.