IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.10720 of 2009 CHILIN DEVI @ CHILARI DEVI, wife of Baleshwar Singh alias Baleshwar, resident of village – Nasirpur, Akauni, P S – Narahi, District – Balia (UP). Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02. 09.07.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. Petitioner is the mother-in-law and has been in custody since 28.6.2008 in relation to Simri P S Case No. 151 of 2005 for the offences under sections 304B, 201 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code. The present case has arisen out of a complaint bearing No. 632 ( c ) of 2005. Submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that even according to the allegation made in the complaint the incident is supposed to have happened on 28.6.2005 on which the complaint in question came to be filed in July, 2005. The incident took place in the district of Balia (Uttar Pradesh) but despite the above fact the matter was referred for investigation and the petitioner has been taken in custody . It is also stated that petitioner is a very aged person and looking the period she has spent in custody with the unexplained delay in lodging of the case and that too at a belated stage, petitioner deserves to be enlarged on bail. Considering the entirety of the allegation, the circumstance and the period petitioner has been in custody, let the petitioner Chilin Devi alias Chilari Devi be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.20, 000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the - 2 - satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar, in Simri P S Case No. 151 of 2005. rkp (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)