IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.50660 of 2008 SURENDRA KUMAR @ MANOJ KUMAR SON OF ARVIND KUMAR RESIDENT OF VILLAGE SANDALPUR,P.S.SULTANGANJ,DISTRICT PATNA Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3/ 26.3.2009 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks bail in a case which was initially registered for offence under Section 304(B) of the Indian Penal Code. Later on Section 210 of the Indian Penal Code has been added. According to prosecution case, the informant’s daughter Rakha Devi married with the petitioner in the year 2004 was done to death in the year 2007 by her in-laws including the petitioner on account of her inability to fetch dowry related demands. Submission is that some other co-accused have been granted bail by different orders of this Court. Further submission is that during trial the witnesses have not supported the prosecution case and they have stated that it was an accidental death as the victim’s cloth caught fire and due to that she died. The case of the petitioner is identical to those co-accused who have been granted bail. The petitioner is in jail custody since 2.5.2007. The petitioner is the husband of the deceased and his case cannot be equated with other accused persons so far as allegation in a case of Section 304(B) of the Indian Penal Code is concerned. Considering this, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, his prayer for bail is rejected. Tahir/- ( Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)