IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.45615 of 2009 RAJIA DEVI, wife of Late Ramadhin alias Adhin Singh, village Sirpatpur, PS Fatuha, district Patna – petitioner. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 26.2.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the counsel appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case under sections 323, 379, 504 and 498A of the Penal Code and sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted that the petitioner who is the mother-in- law is aged about seventy two years and the allegation of demand of dowry is omnibus. In the facts and circumstances of the case I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. The petitioner may make a prayer for regular bail before the court below and if the court below finds her above sixty five years of age, it will consider the desirability of granting bail to the petitioner. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation. haque (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)