IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27599 of 2011 Ramkanta Devi, wife of Birbhadra Prasad, resident of village – Balua Dhenukhi, P.S. – Jitana, District – East Champaran, presently residing at Railway Quarter, Diulia, Narkatiaganj. -------- Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar -----Opposite Party ******* 03. 15.10.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner, apprehends her arrest in connection with Narkatiaganj Rail Case No. 11/2011 for offences under Sections 304(b)/201 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, pending before Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran, is named accused in this case being mother-in-law of deceased daughter of the informant within four years of her marriage under unnatural circumstances after suffering for demand of dowry, torture etc. Submission is that it is a case of commission of suicide by taking poison and immediately the victim was provided medical aid but prior to her death her statement was recorded at Primary Health Centre, Narkatiaganj, wherein she said nothing about any sort of ill-treatment etc. but exonerated all of her in-laws. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor referring paragraph nos. 29, 30, 35 and 47 of original case diary and paragraph nos. 23, 29 and 30 of supplementary case diary pointed out that since very initial stage attempts for tempering of evidence are made and alleged statement of the deceased appears recorded by an unauthorized person without any certificate of fitness but in presence of one of the sons of the petitioner i.e. brother-in-law (Dewar) of the deceased Balmiki who at the same time, as is evident from the materials was residing at Bhatinda, Punjab, from where only after getting information about occurrence in the family he left the place to reach at his home at a great distance Shikarpur, Bihar, where as the victim died of ill-treatment caused by her in-laws including the petitioner. All such conduct disentitles the petitioner for the privilege sought. Accordingly, prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is hereby rejected. Rajeev/- ( Akhilesh Chandra, J.)