IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.29499 of 2009 SANTOSH RAI, son of Ram Sujan Rai, resident of village Sanokhar, P.S. Bithan, District Samastipur Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 4. 16.9.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the State. Two things are absolutely clear from the reading of the F.I.R. as also the postmortem report in the case diary. One that the deceased had died out of a burn injury and the second that the petitioner is the husband who ought to have taken steps for saving the life of the deceased wife. Merely because the petitioner would take a plea that he was not aware of such burn injury or that there was some dispute between his mother (mother-in-law of the deceased) and his wife (deceased) would not be sufficient to explain unnatural death of the deceased. The police may have submitted charge sheet u/s 306 I.P.C. but then the allegations and the materials will have to be looked into at the time of framing of charge. Considering over all aspect of this 2 case, the prayer for bail of the petitioner is rejected with a direction to the trial court that if the case has already been committed to the court of Sessions, the trial of the petitioner must be commenced forthwith and be completed preferably within a period of one year from today. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/