IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr Misc No 35174 of 2009 Manju Devi, wife of Raghunath Sah @ Lukhran, resident of Village – Nayagaon, P S – Kotwali, District – Munger -Petitioner Versus State of Bihar -Opposite Party ----------- 6 24.05.2010 The petitioner is the mother-in-law of the victim lady who apprehends arrest in Munger Kotwali Police Station Case No 84 instituted on 09.03.2009 for offences under Sections 304B, 201/34 of Indian Penal Code. On 08.03.2009, on basis of the statement of husband of the petitioner, police registered Munger Kotwali Police Station (Unnatural Death) Case No 7 of 2009 in respect of death of Renu Devi, his daughter- in-law aged about 20 years in the Sadar Hospital. In the UD Case, it is his statement that she was pregnant and sick and used to take a lot of medicine. On 05.03.2009, she suddenly fainted and was brought to the Sadar Hospital where on 08.03.2009 at about 10.30 am, she died in course of treatment. The present case being Munger Kotwali Police Station Case No 84 of 2009 was registered on 09.03.2009 on the statement of the father of the victim lady wherein it has clearly been stated that the mother-in-law of the victim lady, had called on his mobile phone at Kolkata in the morning of 08th March, 2009 informing him that his daughter was seriously ill. On arriving at Munger, he found that she has been killed and cremated. It is alleged that she has been tortured. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the victim lady was taken to Hospital and was in Hospital for over three days before she died. Post mortem was also conducted in which various organs were sent for forensic examination. Forensic report is here which shows 2 that it is not a case of poisoning. It is submitted that after the post mortem report, the body was cremated and it is wrongly alleged that she was killed and body surreptitiously disposed of. In the post mortem report, no external injuries etc have been found. Before parting, I would like to notice one aspect. Though police has taken note of UD case but unfortunately from the case diary, it does not appear that police has even sought to verify as to when the victim lady was brought to treatment to the Sadar Hospital and for what was she being treated. The Superintendent of Police would look into this aspect of the matter. Be that as it may, petitioner is the mother-in-law. In the event of her arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks from today, the petitioner abovenamed be released on bail on her furnishing bonds of Rs 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in Munger Kotwali Police Station Case No 84 of 2009 subject to all conditions as laid down in Section 438 (2) of Criminal Procedure Code. Let the forensic report and case diary be returned to the trial Court. M.E.H./ (Navaniti Prasad Singh)