IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.32934 of 2009 Sobh Nath Sah, Son of Kashi Nath Sah, Resident of Village Bambhwar, P.S. Piro, District Bhojpur. ------- Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar -------- Opp. Party ----------- 2 6.10.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State as also counsel for the informant. A husband is supposed to be the one person who has to protect his wife from all odds. Here the petitioner is a husband who takes a plea that when his wife had committed suicide, he had no time to inform his in-laws and such information was given to the parents of the deceased wife by one Manoj Kumar. This Court also fails to understand such explanation coming from the husband-petitioner that he will not be held responsible for committing of suicide by his wife specially when there is consistent version of the prosecution that such suicide took place on account of repeated demand of dowry and the deceased being also subjected to both physical and mental torture. In such a situation, it cannot be said that the husband could not be 2 held responsibile for the offence alleged. Be that as it may, this Court, treating the allegation to be serious against the petitioner, is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner and therefore, while rejecting the prayer for bail of the petitioner, this Court would direct the trial court to ensure that the trial of the case, if already committed to the court of sessions, is taken up on an out of turn basis so that the same is disposed of within a period of one year from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order specially when this court has been given to understand by the counsel for the informant that the informant will produce his witness without any delay ensuring that the trial can be concluded within the aforesaid period of one year. Subject to the aforementioned observations and directions, this application is dismissed. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)