IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.23926 of 2008 1. SATNARAIN SHARMA S/o- Late Anup Lal Thakur 2. Shail Devi W/o- Satnarain Sharma 3. Pintu Kumar @ Kaushal Kumar S/o- Satnarain Sharma All are residents of village – Govindpur, P.S.- Mahua, District- Vaishali Presently residing at Punjabi Colony, Samastipur, District - Samastipur Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. Nirmala Kumari W/o- Shakuntalesh Kumar @ Pappu Kumar, D/o- Sri Ram Dayal Sharma, Resident of village – Baji Bujurg, P.S. – Sakara, District - Muzaffarpur ----------- 5. 18.11.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioners are father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law of the complainant accused in a case registered for the offences under sections 323, 498A of the Indian Penal Code as well as 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted that the present complaint has been filed for ulterior purpose with vague and general allegation. As a matter of fact, complaint was also filed by the complainant as contained in annexure-2 which was later on compromised wherein the complainant herself stated that no dowry demand was - 2 - made by the in-laws. Learned counsel for the State submits that petitioners again started demanding the dowry and torture the complainant. As such, the present complaint has been filed on behalf of the petitioners. Having considered the submissions, as noticed above, and in the facts and circumstances of the 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 S.D.J.M., (East) Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case 1187 of 2007 corresponding to Tr. No. 2182 of 2008 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Jagdish/- (Shailesh Kumar Sinha,J)