IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.51977 of 2008 ASHOK KUMAR SHARMA @ASHOK SHARMA Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3 30.3.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The doubt sought to be created by the petitioner in the death of his wife by placing reliance on a medical certificate of a doctor showing her death to be an event of normal circumstance could have been very well understood had the petitioner thereafter acted in a normal manner. The petitioner, a husband facing prosecution did not even care to inform the parents of the deceased girl who had given their daughter in marriage and not by way of a slave to the husband petitioner. That being so, this Court, for the time being, treating the husband petitioner to be the main accused for an office under Section 304B of Indian Penal Code, would not grant bail to the petitioner only because he has remained in custody for a period of around ten months. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner namely Ashok Kumar Sharma @ Ashok Sharma is hereby rejected with a direction to the trial court to expedite the trial. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)