IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR.MISC. NO.49090 of 2008 1. SHAKUNTALA CHOUDHARY @ SAKUNTALA DEVI, WIFE OF SUBHASH CHOUDHARY 2. SUBHASH CHOUDHARY, SON OF BAJRANG LAL CHOUDHARY BOTH RESIDENT OF MOHALLA AMLA TOLA, NEAR NEW MARKET, KATIHAR, POLICE STATION KATIHAR, DISTRICT KATIHAR VERSUS STATE OF BIHAR ******** 2 09.01.2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners, the informant and the State. Petitioners are accused in a case under Sections 498A and 406 of the Indian Penal Code. Learned Counsel for the informant submits that the petitioners are the next door neighbour and are responsible for instigating the husband for behaving in the manner in which he has behaved with her wife. It is also submitted that other family members are also responsible for instigating and filing several other cases. Considering the facts that the petitioners are not directly involve in the dispute between the husband and the wife and that the husband is already in custody, I direct the release of the petitioners, namely, Shakuntal Choudhary @ Sakuntala Devi and Subhash Choudhary on bail in 2 the event of arrest/surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today in Tarapur Police Station Case No. 58of 2008 on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Anand ( Sheema Ali Khan, J. )