IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.1628 of 2011 SANGEETA KUMARI @ SANGEETA SINHA, WIFE OF AJAY KUMAR @ AJAY KUMAR SINHA, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE GOPIPUR, P.S. SIGORI, P.O. PALIGANJ DISTRICT PATNA ……… PETITIONER Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- For the Petitioner : Mr. Ghanshyam Tewary, Advocate For the State : A.P.P. --------- 04/ 13.04.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. Petitioner is an accused for offences punishable under sections 498A, 304B and 34 of the Penal Code, read with sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. 3. Petitioner is the sister-in-law (elder Nanad) of the deceased, who was the daughter of the informant. There was serious allegation against the petitioner in the first information report and hence her earlier petition for anticipatory bail bearing Cr. Misc. No. 29788 of 2005 was rejected by this Court vide order dated 01.02.2006 (Annexure 1). 4. Although the petitioner is an accused in a case of 2002 but she filed an application for anticipatory bail in the year 2005, which was rejected on 01.02.2006 by this Court. After the said order, the petitioner should have appeared before the court below but inspite of having knowledge of the case and the pendency of the proceeding against her, she avoided appearance in the court below due to which the proceeding stood delayed for about five years. Now she has again filed this petition for anticipatory bail. 2 This Court does not find any reason to take a difference view. Accordingly, this petition for anticipatory bail is dismissed. MPS/ ( S. N. Hussain, J. )