IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.17678 of 2011 Shiv Shankar Thakur And Ors. Versus The State Of Bihar ----------- 2. 29.06.2011. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. Umanath Mishra, learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Sections 302, 379, 380 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code. The accusation against the entire in-laws family of the deceased is to assault the victim as a result of which he died on 04.02.2010 for which the complaint was filed on 26.04.2010 which ultimately came to be registered as police case on 15.05.2010. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that not only the accusation is absurd since the wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law and other family members have been alleged to have killed the husband of petitioner no.3 but it appears that the victim died on 04.02.2010 due to illness and his ritual was performed 2 at that point of time and a certificate to that effect has been issued by the Panchayat Mukhiya. It is further submitted that since the petitioners’ side refused to return certain animal as demanded by the informant as a result of which the present case has been filed. The unexplained delayed in lodging of the complaint clouds the bonafide of accusation and considering the same other accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by this court. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Shiv Shankar Thakur, Shyama Devi, Prema Kumari and Shyam Nandan Singh @ Ram Nandan Singh @ Mohan Singh, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Tajpur (Bangra)P.S. Case No. 157 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Samastipur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code 3 of Criminal Procedure. U. K. ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)