IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.1977 of 2009 SONA DEVI, wife of Ram Chandra Tanti, resident of village- Narharipur, P.S. Bhagwanpur, Dist. Begusarai Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 03/ 02.07.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner, mother-in-law, is apprehending her arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence under Sections 304B/34 of the Indian Penal Code. She is named in the First Information Report along with other family members, including the husband and the father-in-law of the deceased. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that prior to the lodging of the present case, an U.D. case was lodged as deceased suffered body ache and while being taken to hospital, she died. From the post-mortem report, it does not appear that the deceased died on account of any external or internal injury over her body. Viscera report also does not indicate that she has been poisoned. It further appears from the viscera report that exact cause of death is yet to be ascertained. In such circumstances, I direct the petitioner to surrender in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 34 of 2008 within four weeks from today and thereafter no coercive steps be taken against her until the cause of death of the deceased is ascertained and attributed to 2 members of the family of the petitioner, whereafter appropriate orders in accordance with law be passed. Arjun/ ( V.N. Sinha, J.)