IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.51545 of 2008 1. BHAGIRATH PRASAD 2. SHANKAR KUMAR @ SHANKAR MAHTO 3. SANTOSH KUMAR 4. REENA DEVI 5. SIHANTA DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2/ 22/12/2008. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners apprehend arrest in a police case under Section- 304B of I.P.C. The defence is that after investigation charge sheet was submitted only against the husband and the mother-in-law who are already in custody when cognizance was taken differing with the same. Death has occurred in one year three months of the marriage in the background of demands for dowry. The impugned order reflects that there was strangulation mark on the neck. This Court is not persuaded that petitioners 1 to 3, father-in-law and the brothers of the husband, are entitled to the privilege of anticipatory bail. The application is rejected with regard to them. Insofar as petitioners 4 and 5 are considered, considering that they are the wives of the brother of the husband and the widowed sister of the husband, with generalized allegations, let petitioners 4 2 and 5 named above surrender before the court below within four weeks when they shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail upon furnishing the bail-bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each along with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Ariyari P.S. Case No.82 of 2008, subject to the conditions laid down under Section-438(2) Cr.P.C. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)