IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.49413 of 2008 1. GIRIJA CHOUDHARY S/O LATE BITTAL CHOUDHARY 2. BAGARH CHOUDHARY S/O GIRIJAY CHOUDHARY 3. SAJAN CHODHARY S/O GIRIJA CHOUDHARY 4. MALTI DEVI W/O GIRIJA CHOUDHARY 5. GITA DEVI W/O BAGARH CHOUDHARY 6. ANJALI DEVI W/O SAJAN CHOUDHARY (ALL ARE R/O VILL PANCHANPUR, P.S. TEKARI, DIST. GAYA) --------------- PETITIONERS. Versus 1. STATE OF BIHAR ------- OPP. PARTY. ----------- For the petitioners: Mr. Shivajee Pandey, Sr. Advocate. For the State: Mr. C.Jawahar, APP 03. 16.04.2009 Heard both sides. Petitioners, who are in-laws of the deceased, have approached this court for grant of anticipatory bail in a case instituted under Sections 304(B) and 201 of the Penal Code. The victim died in the matrimonial home in suspicious circumstance within six years of marriage. Learned counsel for the petitioners, referring to various paragraphs of the case diary submits that the police, in course of investigation, found altogether different reasons for prompting the deceased to commit suicide. It has further been submitted that the Supervising Officer also found the case prima-facie true under Section 306 of the Penal Code. Learned counsel for the State is not in a position to refute this position. It has further been submitted that the investigation is still going on and the complicity of the petitioner may surface. 2 In the facts and circumstances of the case, this court is prepared to grant them the privilege of anticipatory bail which shall be confined only for the period the matter is under investigation. No sooner the charge-sheet/final form is submitted the present order granting them bail shall cease and the petitioners’ shall be at liberty to apply afresh for grant of bail. In the event of their arrest or surrender within four weeks form today before the court below, let the above named petitioners be released on bail 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, Gaya in connection with Tekari P.S. Case no. 134 of 2008, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This court once again clarifies that this privilege of bail granted to the petitioners shall be effective only during the investigation of the case. Sym/ (Kishore K. Mandal, J.)