IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.53131 of 2008 1. MAHENDRA DAS 2. RATNI DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3/ 18/05/2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners apprehend arrest in a complaint case under Sections- 498A, 323 and 379 of I.P.C. The petitioner No.1 is the husband. Petitner No.2 is the wife of his brother. The submission on behalf of the husband is that his erstwhile wife has run away herself and married another elsewhere. No appearance or representation is even being filed on behalf of the complainant before the court below. Considering the generalized nature of allegations against petitioner No.2 above named in the position of a daughter-in-law herself, let her surrender before the court below within four weeks when she shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail upon furnishing the bail-bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) along with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri S.P. Shukla, J.M., Banka in Complaint Case No.729/99. 2 Insofar as petitioner No.1 is concerned, this Court considers it proper to direct that he shall surrender within like period when he shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail for a period of six months only. Any application for regular bail on his behalf thereafter shall be decided on its own merits in view of the intervening developments and the submission made of complete non-prosecution of the complaint by the complainant or through her lawyer, without being prejudiced by the present order. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)