IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.39076 of 2008 1. SUSHIL SHARMA @ S.D.O.SHARMA 2. SHANTI DEVI … PETITIONERS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR … OPP. PARTY ----------- 3. 2.12.2008 Heard Smt. Mira Kumari, Advocate for the petitioners and Sri D. Mehta, APP for the State. The deceased married to the accused Munna Sharma only in 2007. Now the accused persons including the petitioners faced allegation that for not getting sufficient dowry they killed the deceased. Reference has been made by the learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners Sri S.N.P. Sinha to a particular paragraph of the case diary, which indicates that the lady was closed inside the room and set herself at fire and the room was opened by the villagers and the burnt lady was brought out of it. The further contention by reference to some of the annexures, which indicated that the lady was taken to a doctor for being treated for sterility. The investigations indicate that the lady was suffering from endometritis, which utterly means infection of the internal genital system on account of having previously aborted. The defence submission is that on account of finding herself in - 2 - such a difficult situation, besides being married and not able to deliver a child, the lady was depressed and ultimately committed suicide. Regard being had to the facts of the case, contentions and the description of the place of occurrence in the case diary, let petitioners Sushil Sharma @ S.D.O. Sharma and Shanti Devi, who are parents of the husband, be released from custody on furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Ayar P.S. Case No. 40 of 2008. DKS/ (Dharnidhar Jha, J.)