IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.2816 of 2010 NASIBAN KHATOON @ NAJIBUL NISHA,wife of Sarfuddin Ansari,resident of Mohalla- Nilkothi,At+P.O.+P.S.-Dehri,District-Rohtas. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02/ 06-04-2010 Heard Mr. Ashutosh Ranjan Pandey, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, Mr. Dashrath Mehta, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the State and also Sri Rajani Kant Singh, learned counsel for the informant. Petitioner apprehends her arrest in connection with Dehri Town P.S.Case No.477 of 2009 dated 03-10-2009, which was originally registered under Section 304B/34 of the Indian Penal Code but subsequently it was converted under Section 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is the mother-in-law of the deceased and marriage is said to have taken place about 13 years ago. He further submits that primal role for commission of crime in question is against the husband of the deceased and not against the petitioner. He also states that the husband of the petitioner has been granted bail by a Bench of this Court. Learned counsel for the State as also learned counsel for the informant have strongly opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail and submitted that the petitioner is specifically named in the FIR as accused and there is specific allegation of demand of dowry and torture against her. In that view of the matter and in view of the relationship of 2 the petitioner with the deceased and she being the mother-in-law, her prayer for anticipatory bail is rejected. She must surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks from today and seek regular bail, if so advised. If such a prayer is made, the same may be considered and disposed of on its own merit without being prejudiced by the present order. The petitioner shall be at liberty to raise all the pleas, for the purpose of grant of bail, which are available on record. AH/ ( Birendra Prasad Verma, J.) )