IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.47503 of 2008 AMARKANT VERMA son of Mohan Murari Verma, resident of village Jai Prakash Nagar, P.S.Civil Line, Gaya, District Gaya, at present Pali Road,Dehri,P.S.Dehri,District Rohtas … … Petitioner Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR … … Opp. Party For the petitioner: Smt. Rina Sinha For the State: Shri Dashrath Mehta, APP For the informant: Shri Ranjeet Kr. Pandey ----------- 3. 6.2.2009 Heard. The allegation against the petitioner, who is the husband of the deceased Swarnlata, is that for not getting money which the petitioner was asking to be brought from her father or brother, he killed the deceased by administering poison. The case is that it was this petitioner who had administered poison to the lady who was married to the petitioner five years prior to the occurrence and she was bestowed with two children, both sons aged three and half years and 7 months. The informant and some of his family members after alleging that the lady was poisoned to death also appear making statements that she swallowed poison herself and killed herself but qualified 2 the statement by making another statement that the lady was being ill-treated and tortured and there used to be quarrel between the spouses. Some part of the story relating to the quarrel between the spouses appears supported by many independent witnesses also and they stated that on account of quarrel on the very day of the incident the lady swallowed some poison and killed herself. The post mortem examination report, a copy of which has been presented as Annexure-3, indicates that the lady died on account of intestinal perforation due to indigesting corrosive material. The defence is that the lady took acid which was kept in the house for cleaning basin, etc. and she was rushed to the hospital from one place to other and lalstly to S.S.L. Hospital, BHU where she died in course of treatment. Learned counsel appearing for the informant was more interested in obtaining a direction from this Court to the trial court for expediting the trial. I do not want to give a decision on the present petition but 3 when the Court finds that there could be two possibilities and one possibility could be that the lady could have killed herself by taking corrosive acid, there could not be any alternative than to direct the release of the petitioner on bail. Let the above named petitioner be released on his furnishing a bond of Rs. 10,000/-( ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rohtas at Sasaram, in Dehri Town P.S.Case No. 171 of 2008. Kanth ( Dharnidhar Jha, J.)