IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.3552 of 2008 MAIRI DEVI @ MUNARKI DEVI & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3 13.5.2008 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners as also the learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Bihar P.S. Case No.345 of 2007 registered under Sections-304,201/34 I.P.C. and have prayed for anticipatory bail. It appears that after having sustained burn injury on person in her Sasural Preeti Kumari , she was treated at Apollo Burn Hospital,Patna where her statement was recorded by the S.I., Agam Kuan Police Station at 11.05 A.M. on 2.11.2005 in presence of her father, Suresh Prasad, whose signature is endorsed therein. Ten months thereafter, the father filed a complaint petition before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif and the same was transmitted to the concerned Police Station, on the basis thereof Bihar P.S. Case No.345 of 2007 was registered against all the accused persons. Unfortunately, in the case diary of Bihar P.S. Case No.345 of 2007, except the statement of the victim girl at Patna no other reference has been made. Even whether another case was registered on the basis thereof and what the progress in that case has been made has not been mentioned in the case diary of the instant case. The explanation of delay in filing the Complaint has also not been - 2 - explained or furnished. In the facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest/surrender by the petitioners , namely, Mairi Devi @ Munarki Devi, Sampatiya Devi and Ram Sringar Das @ Makai in the court below within three weeks from today, they shall be enlarged on bail on each of them furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Bihar P.S. Case No.345 of 2007, subject to the conditions as laid down in Section-438(2) Cr.P.C. (Abhijit Sinha,J) NKS/-