IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.42453 of 2008 KRISHNA SINGH @ DHRUV NARAYAN SINGH & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3/ 13.1.2009 Heard. The two petitioners are father in law and mother in law of the deceased Punam Devi who was married to late Nand Kishore Singh, the son of the present petitioners. The lady was being ill treated and tortured by the accused persons and specially by Rambha Devi and Abhimanyu Singh who were daughter and son in law of the petitioners as they wanted to take away the articles and properties received by the deceased from her parents. It is alleged that the husband of the deceased died some times prior to the occurrence on account of illness and thereafter, said Rambha Devi and Abhimanyu Singh increased their acts of torture and lastly, all the accused persons strangulated the lady, put her to death, covered the dead body and absconded. The death was on account of strangulation was indicated by postmortem examination report as the ligature was all around the neck which had caused the suffocation and ultimate death of the lady. Support is also that the lady was 2 ill treated and tortured by the accused persons and considering that, it may not be a case for bail. However, considering that petitioner no.2 Kishori Devi is a lady and she is in jail, I direct her release on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.D.J.M. (West) Muzaffarpur in Sariya P.S. Case no. 280 of 2007. Prayer for bail of petitioner no. 1 Krishna Singh alias Dhruv Narayan Singh is rejected. Anil/ ( Dharnidhar Jha,J )