IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.57120 of 2007 BINOD MANDAL Versus THE STATE OF BIHR ----------- 3 6.5.2008 Heard learned for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner, who is the husband, is an accused in a case under sections 498A and 304B of the Penal Code. The occurrence took place on 12.3.2006. The father of the deceased came to the house of his daughter on 13.3.2006 and found that his daughter was lying dead. It is alleged that since the petitioner’s family saw the informant in the village, they took the body to the Ghat and cremated it. The complaint was lodged after forty five days of the occurrence. It has been alleged that the victim girl was given poison by her in-laws and the husband. All the witnesses including the mother of the victim girl have stated that the girl was strong headed and she did not like to stay in her husband’s place and used to go to her mother’s home on the slightest provocation. The independent witnesses said that she has taken poison whereas the informant’s family said that she was administered poison. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is in custody since sixteen months. Considering the aforesaid facts the petitioner Binod Mandal is directed to be released on bail in Pirpainty PS Case No. 90/2006 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur. haque (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)