Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8972 of 2012 ====================================================== Sima Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 27 of the Arms Act. On recovery of the dead body of the husband of the informant with injury, F.I.R. was lodged against certain persons. Petitioner was not named in the F.I.R. and after one and half months of the occurrence suspicion was raised against the petitioner also. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that as per the F.I.R. the informant is not the eye witness to the occurrence. It is further submitted that petitioner is the sister in law (gotni) of the informant and considering the suspicious nature of accusation Anil Kumar Singh and others have been granted bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 796 of 2012. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8972 of 2012 (2) dt.26-03-2012 2 / 2 2 I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Sikarhatta P.S. Case No. 26 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.