Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13421 of 2012 ====================================================== Satya Narayan Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the elder brother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in connection with Rohtas P.S. Case No. 150 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rohtas at Sasaram. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant since she was protesting against the illicit relationship of the husband with the wife of the petitioner. The marriage was performed in the year 2002. The postmortem reflects the death by strangulation. It appears that Meena Devi, wife of this petitioner, has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 44728 of 2011. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13421 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2/2 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 petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.