IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.11344 of 2008 GANIR MIYA & ANR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 2.05.2008 Heard the learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with. Complaint .Case No. 1465 of 2005 registered under sections 406/498(A) of the Indian Penal Code and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners, who are the father- in-law and mother-in-law of the informant that so far as allegations as regards to the petitioners and other accused persons at serial no. 4, 5 and 6 in the complaint as contained in Annexure-1 is concerned, are of similar nature. The informant has specifically alleged against the petitioner no. 1 about the ill-treatment and who had taken the informant to Delhi where the petitioner no.1 used to work. It is further alleged in the said complaint petition that the informant was badly treated and she was also assaulted. It has been alleged in the complaint petition itself that the informant had left her in Delhi alone. Since the petitioner no. 1 had gone out without informing anything to the petitioner, after waiting for one week, the informant came back to her in-laws place. Be that as it may it is further submitted that the accused persons at serial no. 4,5, and 6 have similar allegations as mentioned in the aforesaid complaint contained in Annexure-1 have been enlarged on bail. It is submitted that there is no specific allegation against these petitioners and they have been implicated falsely the complaint case. The petitioner also submitted that the very foundation that the petitioner’s son was married 2 to the informant, in evidence, is in dispute of course no papers and materials has been on record. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in the above circumstances, petitioner no. 1 and 2 being the old persons are entitled to be granted anticipatory bail. Learned Addl. P.P. appearing on behalf of the State on the other hand opposes the prayer for bail, however he is not in position to refute the submissions advanced on behalf of the petitioner. Having considered the submissions and on perusal of the allegations levelled in the first information report as well as the averments made in the Petition, it is directed that in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from today, the petitioners, namely, Ganir Miya and Hushaina Khatoon @ Hashaina Khatoon will be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, (West) Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. 1465 of 2005 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Jagdish (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)