IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.24813 of 2008 RADHIKA DEVI & ORS Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 23.07.2008 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and state. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Complaint Case No. 587 ( C) of 2003 for the offence alleged to have been committed under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the present complaint has been filed for ulterior purposes in order to counter the complaint which was filed by the brother of the husband of the complainant alleging the disappearance of his brother from his in-laws place where the complainant was also residing. It is further submitted that the said case was later allowed to be dismissed for non-prosecution allegedly on the ground that the family of the complainant assured that the husband of the complainant would come back, however, same having not materialized the brother of the husband of the complainant again filed a complaint vide Complaint Case No. 20/C of 2005 on the same allegations and for the same relief. The certified copy of the same has been produced, which has been kept on record. Considering the submissions as noticed above and in the facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from today, the petitioners namely, Radhika Devi, Bhola Pandey, Urmial Pandey, Jay Prakash Pandey, Manoj Pandey, Mamta Devi & Bashisth Pandey 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 Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Complaint Case No. 587 (C ) of 2003 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code. Manish/- ( Shailesh Kumar Sinha,J.)