IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.35859 of 2008 1. SITAMANI DEVI W/o- Nawal Sharma 2. Nawal Sharma @ Nunu Sharma S/o- Late Kamla Singh R/o- Village – Babhna Lodipur, P.S. – Kurtha, District - Jehanabad Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 20.11.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioners are accused in a case registered for the offences under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. It is submitted that petitioners are mother-in- law and father-in-law who aged about 75 years has been implicated in this case on general allegations of demand alongwith the other accused persons. It is further submitted that as a matter of fact, the present complaint has been filed for ulterior purpose because the son of the petitioners has filed a matrimonial case for divorce as stated in paragraph-10 of the petition and only after filing of the said divorce case the present complaint has been filed. Having considered the submissions, as noticed above, and in the facts and circumstances of the - 2 - case, it is directed that in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from today, the petitioners, named above be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Gaya in connection with Complaint Case No. 988 of 2007 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Jagdish/- (Shailesh Kumar Sinha,J)