IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.1667 of 2009 INDRA DEVI Versus The STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3/ 22.06.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. There is allegation of demand and torture against the petitioner and his family members followed by killing. While the submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that witnesses are there to state that this is a case of love marriage and falling of the case under the category of suicidal case, that also due to the act of husband refusing to take the deceased with him and husband has already been allowed anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge, Begusarai. No doubt, there are witnesses but they come from in-laws’ family. In the case, neither the prosecution witnesses nor the witnesses for defence have come to support the case as eye witness but presumption is there to favour the prosecution. Demand can only be made from the bride and her family members and torture or cruelty can be faced by her (bride) reported to her family members, as is done in the case. That is further followed by unnatural death (death by burn injury) within seven years in matrimonial house and petitioner being the mother-in-law of the deceased, deserves no bail. Husband is not alleged for killing. Accordingly, the prayer of the petitioner is rejected. shail (Mandhata Singh, J.)