IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.16081 of 2009 MITHILESH SAH @ MITHLESH SAH, son of Satya Narayan Sah, resident of village Bhaurgarh, P.S. Nanpur, District Sitamarhi Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 16.9.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the State as also the informant. After marriage it is the husband who is not only supposed to take care of his wife but at least keep whereabouts if she is missing for a period of more than 24 hours. In the present case all said and done it now surfaces that the deceased, the second wife of the petitioner, was missing from the house and her dead body was later on recovered from the outskirt of the village and that too in mutilated condition. All these circumstances are only lend support to the version of the informant who had given a report to the police about the death of the deceased in suspicious circumstances. The husband petitioner, therefore, cannot take a plea of either caste politics or there being no eye witness to the occurrence connecting him for the death of the deceased. This Court considering totality of 2 the circumstances is not inclined to release the petitioner on bail who is said to be in custody for the last ten months. In the event the case has already been committed to the court of Sessions, the trial court should make all endeavors to conclude the trial preferably within a period of one year from today. With the aforementioned observations, this application is dismissed. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/