IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.34497 of 2008 ASHA DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02/ 09.09.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the informant and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. The petitioner is the mother-in-law and in custody in a case brought about for the alleged murder of her daughter-in-law by strangulating her. The contention is that the Board of Doctors, which was holding the post-mortem examination report, did not find any evidence of strangulation or struggle. The next contention was that as may appear from the post-mortem examination report (Annexure-2) some foul smell was coming out of the intestinal contents indicating that it could be a death by poisoning. The third contention is that the petitioner was residing since quite sometimes back separately from the husband of the deceased. This fact appears contended before the learned lower court, but it was not replied. Let petitioner Asha Devi, under the above facts and - 2 - circumstances, be released from custody on furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Katihar ( Sahayak) P.S. Case No. 159 of 2008. DKS/ (Dharnidhar Jha, J)