IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr. Misc. No.28672 of 2009 RAJIV KUMAR son of Sheo Narayan Ram, resident of Village- Sisvania, P.S. Uchakagaon, District- Gopalganj. . . . . . Petitioner. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3/ 16.10.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner is an accused in a case for the offence under Sections 304 B, 201/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The informant in her fardbeyan stated that her daughter Ranjan Kumari was married on 02.06.2006 with the petitioner. Thereafter the accused persons tortured her daughter for demand of dowry. It is further alleged that at the time of ‘Duragaman’, the informant’s younger daughter Kiran Kumari had also gone with Ranjan Kumari to her Sasural and informed her mother about the demand of dowry and torture. After 8 to 10 days, the informant’s husband also went to his daughter’s Sasural and the deceased Ranjan Kumari informed her father that accused persons are torturing her for motorcycle. Thereafter the previous evening i.e. 20.07.2009, she learnt that accused persons killed her daughter and burnt the dead body and disposed it in the orchard. The petitioner submits that he is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the instant case. In fact, the deceased was suffering from mental disorder and left her house on 02.07.2006, whereafter she did not return. He further submits that some of the accused persons have already been granted bail. Counsel for the State submits that there is allegation of demand of dowry and torture and paragraph 04 of the case diary - 2 - alleges that the accused persons burnt the dead body. In view of the nature of allegation, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, his prayer for bail is rejected. However, the trial court is directed to expedite the trial. Uday/ (Samarendra Pratap Singh, J.)