IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.44859 of 2008 RAM NANDAN RAI Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 15.1.2009 Heard Sri Akhileshwar Prasad Singh, Advocate for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The case is under Section 304B IPC and the petitioner is named in the FIR as an accused. The petitioner is the father-in-law of the deceased who was married to the petitioner’s son in 2004. The allegation is that there was always demand for one thing or the other so much so as to meeting out the cost either of education of the bride or that of her treatment. The informant had purchased a computer set for the husband of the deceased, besides bearing the cost of the delivery of a child of the deceased. The expenditures were met as they were dictated by the present petitioner as per the allegations and lastly it is alleged that they always threatened to kill the lady. It is alleged that the informant learnt from some of the villagers after having received an information about the death of his daughter that the accused persons killed his daughter and absconded. The contention is that the husband surrendered with the female child of the lady in the court on 5.6.2008 and the C.J.M., Begusarai remanded the husband to custody along with the little child who subsequently died in prison. The further contention is that the lady went missing from the railway platform New Delhi and a missing report was filed and accordingly, the D.C.P., Delhi circulated message to all S.Ps. so as to tracing out the lady. It is contended that the case is false - 2 - which is indicated by the fact that the allegation being of killing the mother and the little child both, the little child was alive as she was taken to the parents by the husband and further that the lady went missing. The learned counsel appearing for the informant has referred to many paragraphs of the case diary and has submitted that even the villagers of the petitioner supported the allegation that the lady was pestered that demands for additional dowry and was illtreated and tortured and that she was ultimately killed. It might be that the little child could have died in the jails but the trend of investigation indicates that the lady was killed and her dead body was consigned to the streams of the Ganges, considering which, the prayer for bail of the above named petitioner is dismissed. B.Kr. ( Dharnidhar Jha, J. )