Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27538 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajan Jaiswal S/O Pramod Jaiswal Resident of Village Ghorasahan, Adarsh Nagar, P.S. Ghorasahan, District East Champaran. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 09-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant 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. The husband of the informant was killed by causing fire arm injury when F.I.R. was lodged against unknown. After fourteen days of occurrence, the informant claimed herself to be the eye witness of the petitioner fleeing away from the place of occurrence, when threatening for extortion was earlier given by the petitioner’s side. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is next door neighbour and there was no occasion for the informant not to name the petitioner when F.I.R. was Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27538 of 2012 (4) dt.09-10-2012 2 / 2 2 registered. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Ghorasahan P.S. Case No. 168 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned S.D.J.M., Sikrahna, Motihari. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.