IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.45371 of 2008 1.CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA S/O-Late Ram Krishna Jha 2.DEVKANT JHA S/O-Late Ram Krishna Jha 3.NARESH DEVI W/O-Dev Kant Jha All R/O-Vill-Boroj, P.S.-Hathuri, Distt.-Samastipur 4.ARTI KUMARI D/O-Devkant Jha & W/O-Pranav Kumar Jha R/O-Vill-Dullipatti, Jainagar, P.S.-Jainagar, Distt.-Madhubani 5.POONAM DEVI W/O-Navin Jha 6.UMA SHANKAR JHA S/O-Dev Kant Jha 7.SHIV SHANKAR JHA S/O-Dev Kant Jha 8.ANJU DEVI W/O-Binod Kumar Jha All R/O-Vill-Boroj, P.S.-Hathauri, Distt.-Samastipur. …………………………………………..Petitioners. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2/ 22.01.2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners, learned Counsel for the State and learned Counsel for the complainant. The Petitioner No. 1 is father-in-law, Petitioner No. 2 is cousin father-in-law, Petitioner No. 3 is cousin mother-in-law, Petitioner No. 4 is married cousin sister- in-law, Petitioner No. 5 is Gotni, Petitoner Nos. 6 & 7 is cousin of the husband of the complainant and Petitoner No. 8 is the second wife of the complainant. All the petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case which has been registered under Section 498 (A) and some other Sections of the Indian Penal Code in which the complainant has alleged that she has been subjected - 2 - to torture by all her in-laws and a demand of Rs. 75,000/- has also been made. This Complaint has been filed on 17.06.2008. Submission is that prior to the present occurrence the complainant of the case has filed a Sanha which has been appeared as Sanha No. 69 of 2008 that has been filed on 15.06.2008 in which she has stated that the accused persons were not giving due share for last 15 years in the property. Further submission is that the present petition is also in the same tune as that of the Sanha. Annexure-2 is the First Information Report which has been filed by Anju Devi, Petitioner No. 8 against her husband and the complainant and another. In which she has alleged that she was being tortured. Prayer for anticipatory bail has been opposed by learned Counsel for the informant. Considering the earlier Sanha and other facts and circumstances of the case, the petitioners 1. Chandra Shekhar Jha, 2. Devkant Jha, 3. Naresh Devi, 4. Arti Kumari, 5. Poonam Devi, 6. Uma Shankar Jha, 7. Shiv Shankar Jha and 8. Anju Devi are directed to surrender before the Court below within a period of twenty days from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order and on their so surrendering they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- - 3 - (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rosera, District-Samastipur in connection with Complaint Case No. 478 of 2008, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. kksinha/ (Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)