IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.34685 of 2009 1. SHANKAR SAH, SON OF LATE HARILAL SAH 2. SMT. SUSHILA DEVI, WIFE OF SHANKAR SAH BOTH RESIDENT OF VILLAGE GARH BAZAR, P.S. SONEBARSA RAJ, DISTRICT SAHARSA. ----- PETITIONERS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----- OPPOSITE PARTY ----------- 2 13.11.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the counsel appearing on behalf of the State. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case under Sections 498A, 323, 406, 379 of the Indian Penal Code and 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Petitioners are father-in-law and mother-in-law. The allegation is that the husband has married another lady. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that as far as these petitioners are concerned, they cannot be held responsible for their son’s act. Be that as it may, petitioners namely Shankar Sah and Smt. Sushila Devi are directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Complaint Case No. 564/2008 on furnishing bail bonds of rupees ten thousand each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Madhepura subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Sanjay (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)