IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.46481 of 2009 1. DUDHNATH PRASAD 2. JAGIA DEVI 3. DHARMSHEELA DEVI 4. RAMA KANT PD. ------------------- PETITIONERS Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 2.2.2010 Learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to implead Rama Kant Pd. as petitioner no.4 in this application for anticipatory bail. Heard learned counsel for the parties. Every participants of the incident constituting crime have their separate identity and liability. In the case under section 498A IPC, husband has vital role to play that cannot be similarly extended to rest of the family members. In the instant case, marriage is of the year 2000. Continuation of demand is doubted followed by torture that can be a reality but involving rest of the family members including parents’ sister-in-law and cousin can never be appreciated for rejection of their anticipatory bail. The Court while deciding bail application or anticipatory bail application should consider status of other ladies, if would suffer by act of the complainant and her husband. In facts and circumstances of the case, 2 prayer for anticipatory bail is allowed. In the event of arrest or surrender within one month from the date of communication of this order, the above named petitioners shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in Gopalganj P. S. Case No. 158 of 2009, subject to the condition as laid down under section 438(2) Cr.P.C. AI ( Mandhata Singh, J.)