IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.40432 of 2009 1. SAROJ PASWAN @ BATHU PASWAN, SON OF PRADEEP PASWAN. 2. KESHARI DEVI @ KESHIYA DEVI, WIFE OF SHREE PASWAN. 3. CHANIA DEVI, WIFE OF PRADEEP PASWAN. ALL ARE RESIDENT OF VILLAGE-LOSHARI, P.S. BOCHAHAN, DISTRICT-MUZAFFARPUR. ……………………………………………………PETITIONERS. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR……………………..OPPOSITE PARTY. ----------- For the Petitioners : Mr. Mani Bhushan Kumar No.1, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Abhimanyu Sharma, A.P.P. --------- 2. 25.11.2009. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioners are seeking bail in a case registered under Sections 304(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the petitioner no.1 is husband, petitioner no.2 is gotani and petitioner no.3 is mother-in-law of the deceased. It is not specific in the First Information Report as to actually what was demanded as dowry. It has also been submitted that the deceased had committed suicide by hanging herself. The parties have compromised this case and a compromise petition has been 2 filed before the court concerned. The petitioners are stated to be in jail custody since 23.8.2009. It is submitted on behalf of the State that there is allegation against the petitioners of demanding dowry and subsequently causing the death of the deceased by strangulation, which is supported by medical evidence. In that view of the matter, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner no.1, Saroj Paswan @ Bathu Paswan, who is husband of the deceased. His prayer for bail is rejected. So far as the petitioner no.2, Keshari Devi @ Keshiya Devi and petitioner no.3, Chania Devi are concerned, they being ‘gotani’ and ‘mother-in-law’ of the deceased, and both the ladies, are in custody since 23.8.2009, they are directed to be released on bail on their furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the C.J.M., Muzaffarpur, in connection with Bochahan P.S. Case No.8/07. P.S. (Dr. Ravi Ranjan, J)