IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.7808 of 2009 UPENDRA DAS & ANR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3 17/08/2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel representing the State. The petitioners are accused of the case registered under sections 304B/34 of the Indian Penal Code. According to the allegation, the informant’s daughter married with the petitioner no. 1 hardly completed two years of her marital life was allegedly killed by her in-laws on account of her inability to bring the desired dowry articles. Submission is that it was an accident and the accused persons have tried to make available the best doctor for treatment but she could not survive and the informant has hurriedly lodged the case. There is allegation that prior to death the deceased was tortured for bringing certain articles by way of additional dowry. The petitioner no. 1 is the husband and the petitioner no. 2 is the father-in-law of the deceased. Case of the husband cannot be equated with the case of others when the allegation has been levelled under 2 section 304 B IPC. Accordingly, prayer for bail of petitioner No. 1 Upendra Das is rejected. Insofar as the petitioner no. 2 Harendra Das is concerned, he is directed to be released on furnishing of bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned 5th Additional Sessions Judge, Muzaffarpur in S. T. No. 857 of 2008 arising out of Sahebganj P.S. Case No. 93 of 2008. avin (Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)