IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.7715 of 2008 JIB LAL MANDAL & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 7.5.2008 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The two petitioners pray for anticipatory bail in a case under Section 498A and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The allegation in the complaint is that the complainant was married to accused no. 1 in the year 1980 and they also have a son who is aged about 16 years. But subsequently, the husband of the complainant married petitioner no. 2 and since then she has been tortured and demand of Rs. 50,000 etc. was being made as dowry. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated. So far as petitioner no. 1 is concerned it is stated he lives at another village and has no concern with the complainant and her husband. It is further submitted that complainant for nearly 10 years is living separately and in any case the petitioner no. 2 cannot be considered at fault and there is no question of any such demand of dowry after a lapse of more than 25 years of the marriage. On a consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that the petitioners (1) Jib Lal Mandal and (2) Kaushaliya Devi , in the event of their arrest/surrender in the Court below within four weeks from today, shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two - 2 - sureties each of the like amount each in connection with Complaint Case No. 2745 of 2007 to the satisfaction of the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Katihar subject to the other conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. P. Kumar (Ramesh Kumar Datta, J.)