IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.5996 of 2010 Yogendra Rai, S/o-Late Bhagwat Rai, resident of village-Ananpur, P.S.-Baniyapur, District-Saran. -Petitioner. VERSUS The State of Bihar -Opposite Party. ----------- 03 25.05.2010 The petitioner is the father-in-law and apprehends his arrest in Baniyapur P.S. Case No.166 of 2008 under Sections 304(B), 498(A)/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The F.I.R. has been lodged by the father of the deceased lady. In the F.I.R. itself, it is stated that the marriage between the informant’s daughter and petitioner’s son took place in the year 2004. The husband of the deceased lady works in Army and is posted out. It is also stated that the deceased gave birth of two male children who are about 2½ years and 6 months old respectively. On 22.09.2008 early in the morning he got telephonic message that his daughter had received severe burn injury and was being taken to Sadar Hospital, Chapra. He then alleges that he went to the Sadar Hospital but could not trace the girl. He learnt that his girl was burnt to death and lodged the F.I.R. Learned counsel for the petitioner points out that the F.I.R. was lodged on 06.10.2008, whereas the girl, in question, has died in the Sadar Hospital, Chapra on 22.09.2008 and, in fact, in the presence of the informant. It took the informant almost two weeks to think and file the present case. In fact, the daughter of the informant was preparing food and had caught fire and, - 2 - admittedly, it was the petitioner who had taken her for treatment and informed her father. Considering the facts and circumstances, in the event of arrest or surrender within four weeks from today, the petitioner above named shall be released on bail on his furnishing a bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran in Baniyapur P.S. Case No.166 of 2008, subject to all conditions as laid down in Section 438(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code. Trivedi (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.)