IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.3789 of 2009 SHANTI DEVI W/O-Late Asarfi Ram, R/O-Vill-Gandak Colony, P.S.-Town Samastipur, Distt.-Samastipur. …………………………………………..Petitioner. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ……………………………………..Opposite Party. ----------- 2/ 16.03.2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the State and learned Counsel for the informant. The petitioner is accused of the case which has been registered under Sections 498A, 307 of the Indian Penal Code and some other Sections of the Indian Penal Code. The informant has given a written application to the Officer-in-Charge that her in-laws have tortured her in connection with demand of additional dowry. Later on all the accused persons tried to burn her. Submission is that Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code is not made out. The petitioner is a lady and is in custody since 27.11.2008. No overt act has been attributed against this petitioner. The marriage was performed 16 years earlier and the informant has already settled with her husband. Learned Counsel for the informant has opposed the prayer for bail and has stated that the petitioner has also tried to burn the informant. - 2 - Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner be released from custody on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Samastipur P.S. Case No. 526 of 2008. kksinha/ (Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)