IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.33087 of 2008 SANJAY SINGH @ SANJAY KUMAR SINGH, son of Sri Haldhar Singh, resident of Village Mahimachak, P.S. Kharagpur, District Munger ---------------Petitioner Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR --------------Opp.Party ----------- 2. 16.10.2008 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.941C of 2006 for the alleged offences registered under sections 498A and 323 of the Indian Penal Code and section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The allegation against the petitioner is of demand of dowry of Rs.30,000/- which continued right from the date of marriage i.e., 1999. Further allegation is of torture. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the present case has been filed for ulterior purposes since much prior to the filing of the present complaint, the petitioner had filed an informatory petition before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai, as contained in Annexure 7, to the effect that the complainant is not residing with him and is threatening that the family members of the petitioner would be implicated in some false case. Learned counsel submits that the present case has been lodged only to harass the petitioner. It is submitted that the said case was lodged after about one year from the day the complainant left the house of the petitioner. The allegations are equally vague and there are no supporting materials to 2 the allegations made in the complaint. Considering the above and in the facts and circumstances, let the petitioner above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender in connection with Complaint Case No.941C of 2006 within a period of four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Khagaria, in connection with the aforesaid case, on the conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. PNM (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)