IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.33206 of 2008 1. RITA DEVI daughter of Prem Chandravi Dass, Resident of Rly Colony No. 650 G. New Colony, At present Wife of Pradeep Ram, Resident of Naya Nand Gola, P.S. Kuresela, District- Katihar. 2. Geeta Kumari @ Sushila Devi Wife of Late Premchandravi Dass, resident of Rly Colony G. New Colony 650, P.S. –Sahayak, District- Katihar --------------------- Petitioners Versus 1. STATE OF BIHAR 2. Sangeeta Devi W/o Ranjeet Ravi Dass, D/o Ram Baras Dass, R/o Purani Bazaar District- Katihar ------------------- Opposite Parties ----------- 4. 9.1.2009 Heard the counsel for the petitioners and the State. Petitioner No. 1 is married sister-in-law and petitioner No. 2 mother-in-law of the complainant. The offence alleged is under Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code as well as Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Allegations against these petitioners are of demand of dowry and torture. It has also been stated that the daughter of the complainant has been taken away by these petitioners and she is not allowed to meet her daughter. Counsel for the petitioners submits that they are ready to hand over the daughter to the complainant. As informed that a Matrimonial Case No. 190 of 2007 has been filed by the husband of the complainant which is pending in the Principal Judge, Family Court, Katihar. The Complainant will appear before the Principal Judge, Family Court, Katihar on the next date fixed in the case on that date her daughter should be handed over by the petitioners to the complainant. If the complainant is ready to live with her husband and it is expressed by the complainant that she is willing to live with him, - 2 - then the Principal Judge, Family Court will make effort in this regard. Considering the facts, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail on behalf of the petitioners, Rita Devi and Geeta Kumari, is allowed. They are directed to be released on anticipatory bail, in case of their surrender before the Court concerned within four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each in connection with Complain Case No. 935 of 2007 to the satisfaction of the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Khagaria , subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code P. Kumar (Mridula Mishra, J.)