IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.45963 of 2009 1. RAJA PARIKSHIT DHARI 2. CHANDRADEO DHARI BOTH SONS OF LATE AJIT DHARI 3. MEENA DEVI, WIFE OF CHANDRADEO DHARI ALL RESIDENTS OF VILLAGE PRATAPPUR, P.S. HALSI, DISTRICT LAKHISARAI; AT PRESENT RESIDING AT ROTI-BATI NO. 1, P.S. RANIGANJ, DISTRICT BARDHWAN. --- PETITIONERS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR --- OPPOSITE PARTY ----------- 2 4.3.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the counsel appearing on behalf of the informant. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case under Sections 341, 323, 307, 504, 498(A) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Considering that there is direct allegation against petitioner nos. 1 and 2, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to these petitioners. Considering the fact that petitioner no. 3 occupies the same position in the family as the victim lady, I direct that petitioner no. 3 Meena Devi should be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Halsi P.S. Case No. 78 of 2009 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Sanjay (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)