IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.21536 of 2010 MANARIK RAI @ SADHU RAI Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 28.06.2010 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Patlipura P.S. No. 93 of 2006 for offences punishable under Sections 304-B, 201/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The marriage between the daughter of the informant and the petitioner took place on 30.4.2004. Substance of allegation against the petitioner is of subjecting the deceased to torture and harassment and it is alleged that ultimately she was put to death and her dead body was burnt for eliminating the evidence. Considering the fact that the petitioner being the husband of the deceased and the present case having instituted in the year 2006, the petitioner has been absconding all this time and has surrendered only on 14.10.2009, I am not inclined to consider the prayer for bail of the petitioner and the same is rejected. 2 The bail application is dismissed. Learned counsel for the petitioner sought to raise an issue of juvenility of the petitioner. I find that the said issue was neither raised before the Court below nor has been raised in the present application. In any view of the matter, the petitioner would be at liberty to raise the issue of juvenility at any stage of the proceeding which may be considered and disposed of on its own merits. Bibhash ( Jyoti Saran, J.)