IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.37748 of 2009 1. SANTOSH MANJHI S/O MANGER MANJHI R/OVILL BHATBIGHA, P.S.NARDIGANJ, DISTT- NAWADAH 2. MANAGER MANJHI S/O LATE KALI MANJHI R/OVILL BHATBIGHA, P.S.NARDIGANJ, DISTT- NAWADAH 3. KAMLESH MANJHI S/O MANGER MANJHI R/OVILL BHATBIGHA, P.S.NARDIGANJ, DISTT- NAWADAH 4. KESHARI DEVI W/O MANGER MANJHI R/OVILL BHATBIGHA, P.S.NARDIGANJ, DISTT- NAWADAH 5. GHOLA DEVI W/O SITA RAM MANJHI R/OVILL BHATBIGHA, P.S.NARDIGANJ, DISTT- NAWADAH 6. RUNTA DEVI W/O SANTOSH MANJHI R/OVILL BHATBIGHA, P.S.NARDIGANJ, DISTT- NAWADAH Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. RESHMA DEVI W/O SANTOSH MANJHI, D/O CHANDO MANJHI VILL BHATBIGHA, P.S.NARDEGANJ, DISTT- NAWADA AT PRESENT RESIDENT OF VILLAGE DAULATPURA, P.S.SIGAMARHI, (NARHAT , DISTT- NAWADA.) ----------- 3. 14.01.2010 Heard the learned Counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the State. The petitioners are husband and his family members. The allegations are under Sections 498A and other provisions of the Penal Code along with Sections 3 / 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The court below notices the subsequent compromise and holds that the same is not sufficient ground to consider the prayer for anticipatory bail. The Supreme Court in AIR 2003 SC 1386 has exhorted to courts to appropriately deal with matters under 498A of the Penal Code treating it as compoundable offence. The order suffers from judicial adventurism deprecated by the Supreme Court in AIR 1997 SC 2477 and in matters of the present nature by this Court in 2006 (4) PLJR 342. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioners, above named, surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks from today when they shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 20,000/- (Twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Judicial Magistrate, lst Class, Nawada in Complaint Case No. 862 of 2004. Let this order be placed before the Presiding officer who has passed the impugned order dated 6.5.2009. Snkumar (Navin Sinha,J.)