IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.46742 of 2008 DILIP RAI, SON OF NANDU RAI, RESIDENT OF MOHALLA GANDHI CHOWK (POKHARA), P.S.- STATION TOWN (HAJIPUR) DISTRICT- VAISHALI. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 27.11.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner apprehends arrest in a police case under section 498A of Indian Penal Code and sections 3/4 of D.P. Act. The allegations are that the informant was earlier married to the elder brother of the petitioner 14 years ago. The submission is that for these 14 years, there were no allegation of prosecution with regard to demand of dowry. After his death, she was married to the present petitioner in the year 2000 when the present allegations in 2008 are the 4th in series. The submission is that the allegations are for oblique purpose The Court below has proceeded to reject the application. By a verbatim reading of the application without considering the submissions of the earlier marriage, absence of any allegation during that period and that the present be 4th in a series of allegations, let the petitioner abovenamed surrender before the court below within four weeks when he shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail upon furnishing the bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned C.J.M., Vaishali at Hajipur in connection - 2 - with Town (Hajipur) P.s. case no. 262/2008 subject to the condition laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. pkj (Navin Sinha, J)