IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.19602 of 2010 KAMANI DEVI, wife of Sri Ram Narayan Singh, R/o Bihat, P.S. Barauni, District Begusarai ……….. Petitioner Versus STATE OF BIHAR …. Opposite Party ----------- For the Petitioner : Mr. A.K.Thakur, Advocate For the State : Mr. Uma Shankar Pd. Singh, A.P.P. ------ 2 15.06.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for offences punishable under sections 323 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a lady and the mother-in-law of the daughter of the complainant. Learned counsel further submits that prior to filing of the complaint case the son of the petitioner had already filed a case for annulment of marriage bearing Divorce Case No. 107 of 2009 on 18.9.2009 and thereafter the complaint case was filed on 16.12.2009, which is obviously an after thought and for the obvious purpose. That apart it is also submitted that later on the daughter-in-law had also lodged a complaint case, a copy of which has been - 2 - appended as Annexure 4. In that complaint, it is submitted that, no reference of such allegation of pouring kerosene oil and alleged torture had been revealed by the victim lady. Learned counsel submits that petitioner is aged lady. Having considered the facts and the circumstances of the case, let the petitioner, namely, Kamani Devi, in the event of arrest or surrender by her within four weeks, be enlarged on bail on her furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai, in connection with Complaint Case No. 685C of 2009, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Spd/- (Dr. Ravi Ranjan, J.)