IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.37404 of 2009 SHAIL KUER, WIFE OF LATE RAMJEE THAKUR, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- SARIYATPUR, P.S. PIPRA, DISTRICT-EAST CHAMPARAN. ……………………………………………………………………….PETITIONER. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR …………………………………OPPOSITE PARTY. ----------- For the Petitioner : M/s. Nirmal Kumar Sinha-3 & Arun Kumar, Advocates. For the State : Mr. R.P.S. Singh, A.P.P. ------------- 2. 30.10.2009. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner is an accused in a case registered under Sections 304-B/34 of the Indian Penal Code besides Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner is the mother-in-law of the deceased. It has also been submitted that during the course of investigation, it has come that she alongwith the husband was working at maize filed. It is stated that it is highly improbable that a lady who had received 91% burn injury be in a position to give statement before the police. Learned A.P.P. for the State submitted that the 2 informant is the deceased herself who had subsequently died. She had clearly stated in the First Information Report that the mother-in-law, i.e., the petitioner and “nanad” Doli Devi, had sprinkled kerosene oil upon her and set her at fire causing burn injury. In view of the aforesaid statement of the deceased herself, I am not inclined to grant bail to this petitioner for the present. As a result, this application is dismissed at this stage. P.S. (Dr. Ravi Ranjan, J)