IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.30953 of 2008 1. PRAHLAD SHARMA @ PRAHLAD KUMAR SHARMA 2. INDU SHARMA @ INDU DEVI Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 28.8.2008 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.1276 of 2006 for the alleged offences registered under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the present complaint has been filed for ulterior purposes. The complainant herself did not want to live in her matrimonial home and wished to stay at her parents’ place with her husband i.e., the son of the petitioners, which is not agreeable to their son. The son of the petitioners filed an application before the concerned Mukhiya for advising the complainant suitably so that she may live in her matrimonial home but she did not heed to the request of the Mukhiya concerned. It is further submitted that both 2 the petitioners are aged persons and suffering from serious ailments, which would be appearing from the prescriptions, contained in Annexure 4 series. Considering the above, it is directed that the petitioners above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender in connection with Complaint Case No.1276 of 2006 (Trial No.2035 of 2007), within a period of four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/-(Ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur, in connection with the aforesaid case, on the conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. PNM (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)