Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22240 of 2012 (3) dt.11-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22240 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Abhijit Kumar @ Pappu Kumar S/O Kamla Sao .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 3 11-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Taking into account that petitioner being husband of the deceased has been made accused in a case registered under [STATUTE] and the deceased died in other than normal circumstances, I am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail and accordingly, his prayer for bail in connection with Paliganj P.S. Case No. 202 of 2011 pending in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna is, hereby, rejected. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 304

Statute Text:
Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder, If act by which the death is caused is done with intention of causing death, etc. Whoever commits culpable homicide not amounting to murder shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.