IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.11486 of 2011 1. VIJAY YADAV 2. UDAY YADAV 3. DIWAKAR YADAV 4. KUMUD YADAV @ KUMOD YADAV 5. SIMA DEVI 6. MANJU DEVI 7. SUDHA DEVI 8. KAILASH YADAV Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 28.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the husband and other family members of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under Sections 304B, 201 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code. The accusations against the petitioners are of demand of dowry, torture and killing the victim within seven years of the marriage. It is submitted that during the investigation, it was found that the victim died due to illness and in spite of information being given to the informant’s side, they failed to participate in the cremation. It appears that the complaint was filed after 2 four months of the death, which was ultimately registered as a police case in which the final form was submitted and the prosecution of the informant was recomended. Subsequently, the protest petition was also dismissed. The said dismissal order was challenged in revision and in pursuance to the revisional order, now the cognizance order has been passed. Considering the lodging of the complaint after four months of the occurrence and the accusation being found false during the investigation, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Khagaria in connection with Complaint Case No. 198C/2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) 3