IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.50174 of 2007 SUNITA DEVI & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 03 16.05.2008 Heard both sides. Altogether four petitioners have approached this Court for grant of anticipatory bail in a case initially instituted under sections 306,323,498A ,201/34 and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act . It is submitted that the First Information Report was lodged by the mother-in-law of the deceased in which she has named her son as one of the accused who abated commission of suicide of his daughter- in- law. It is submitted that the police initially submitted charge sheet against the informant of this case, that is mother-in-law, as well as the husband of the deceased. It has further been submitted that the accused persons put on trial and have been acquitted of the charge. Learned counsel for the petitioner draws attention of this Court to the statement made in the bail petition submits that the police still kept the investigation pending. Now the petitioners apprehend arrest and therefore seeking protection by the Court. Having considered the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners and after going through the records, particularly the First Information Report and the judgment of acquittal rendered in the case of husband of the - 2 - deceased, this Court is inclined to admit the petitioners to anticipatory bail and accordingly let the petitioners, namely, Sunita Devi, Dev Narain Goswami, Jai Narain Goswami and Santosh Kumar, in the event of their arrest or surrender within four weeks from today before the Court below, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- ( ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur, in Kahalgaon P.S.Case No. 466 of 2004, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Sym/ ( Kishore K. Mandal, J. )