IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.43079 of 2008 TESHLAL CHOUDHARY & CHAUTARA DEVI @ SHANTARA DEVI Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 13.1.2009 Heard Sri Binod Kumar Mishra, Advocate for the petitioners and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The two petitioners are the parents of the husband of the deceased Nitu Devi, who was married to the son of the petitioners only ten months prior to the occurrence. As per the prosecution story, the informant got an in information that his daughter had been burnt by the accused persons and he rushed to the house of the petitioners where he found his daughter lying in a badly burnt condition who was wreathing in pain and stated to him that the two petitioners and their son, i.e., the husband of the deceased tied the hands and feet of the lady, poured kerosene oil on her and set the lady on fire. The attention of the court was drawn to paragraph 6 of the case diary indicating that the lady could have committed suicide on account of being infuriated to find a girl sitting on the bed of her husband who was sleeping at the roof during the night of the - 2 - incident. The other paragraphs of the case diary also contain the statement of a co-villagers who have stated that there was a thick rumor very much in the village that the accused persons had burnt the lady to death. Considering the material collected so far in the case diary, I am not inclined to direct the release of the petitioner, namely, Teshlal Choudhary on bail. His prayer is dismissed. Considering the only criteria that petitioner no.2, namely, Chautara Devi @ Shantara Devi is a lady, she is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rohtas at Sasaram in Baghaila P.S.Case No.12 of 2008. B.Kr. ( Dharnidhar Jha, J. )