The Patna High Court released the petitioners on bail in a case involving alleged murder and suspicious suicide. The court required furnishing of bail bonds and sureties alongside a condition to cooperate in the investigation and trial.
Petitioners released on bail upon furnishing bonds of Rs. 20,000 each with two sureties of like amount.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.45468 of 2017
Arising Out of PS.Case No. -15 Year- 2017 Thana -ADHAURA District- BHABHUA (KAIMUR)
.... .... Petitioners Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Tribhuwan Narayan, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Sri Satyavarat Verma, APP. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIRENDRA KUMAR ORAL ORDER
4 11-01-2018 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
Petitioners seek bail in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 302,201,34 of the Indian Penal Code.
According to FIR, the dead body of the son of the informant was found hanging with a tree. Informant suspected that the petitioners and others have committed the murder. The postmortem report would reveal that no external injury was found on the person of the deceased.
Submission is that this might be a case of suicide and the police did not send up the petitioners for trial after
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conclusion of investigation.
Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, above named, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court below where the case is pending in connection with Adhoura Police Station Case No.15 of 2017, G.R.No.888 of 2017, subject to the condition that the petitioners shall fully cooperate with the investigation and trial of the case, failing which the court below shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bond of the petitioners.
(Birendra Kumar, J)
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2 issues framed by the court
Whether the petitioners in a murder and suspicious suicide case are entitled to bail pending investigation and trial.
Whether bail bonds with sureties can be accepted in cases involving Section 302 IPC where the cause of death is not artificially done.
3 provisions across 1 enactments
Suraj Chero
Jokhu Chero
Ramchandra Chero
State of Bihar
Birendra Kumar
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