IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.6739 of 2010 VIKASH KUMAR THAKUR SONOF LATE RAMJI THAKUR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- For the Petitioner : Mr. Uma Shankar Verma, Advocate For the State : Mr. Brajendra Nath Pandey, A.P.P. ---------- 3. 9.4.2010 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case instituted for the offence under Section 304B/34 of the Indian Penal Code and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. In the first information report the allegation against the petitioner is that he being the husband was responsible along with his family members for the death of the deceased. However, during investigation it transpired that the deceased had attempted to commit suicide and when the villagers and petitioner reached the place of occurrence they removed her to the Hospital, where she survived for three days and died during treatment. The submission of the Counsel is that the deceased is said to have sustained 91% burn injury and it is not possible that she would have given the long statement that is contained as her fard beyan. In view of such, let the petitioner above named, who is in custody since 7.4.2009, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.5,000/- (Five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, East Champaran in Pipra P.S.case No.40 of 2008, subject - 2 - to the conditions (i) That one of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner who will give an affidavit giving genealogy as to how he is related with the petitioner and (ii) that the petitioner will give an undertaking that he will receive the police papers on the given date and be present on date fixed for charge and if he fails to do so on two given dates and delays the trial in any manner, his bail will be liable to be cancelled for reasons of misuse. Narendra/ ( Anjana Prakash, J. )