IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.5834 of 2009 1. SHIVCHANDRA SINGH, SON OF LATE CHHABBU LAL SINGH 2. SANTOSH KUMAR 3. GAUTAM KUMAR ALIAS GUDDU, BOTH THE SONS OF BIDYANAND SINGH, ALL THE RESIDENTS OF VILLAGE CHAPAITH, POLICE STATION GORAUL, DISTRICT VAISHALI …….. PETITIONERS. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR …… OPPOSITE PARTY WITH Cr.Misc. No.8269 of 2009 1. VIDYA NAND SINGH, SON OF LATE JHABHU LAL SINGH 2. SHAIL DEVI, WIFE OF VIDYA NAND SINGH, BOTH THE RESIDENTS OF VILLAGE CHAPAITH, POLICE STATION GORAUL, DISTRICT VAISHALI …… PETITIONERS. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR …… OPPOSITE PARTY. ----------- 3. 14.7.2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners and Counsel for the State. Petitioners in both the applications are the in-laws of the deceased. They are apprehending their arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence under Sections 304B and 201/34 of the Penal Code and have been named in the first information report with general and omnibus allegation for having tortured the daughter-in-law and killing her. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the allegation as set out in the first information report is absolutely false and has been lodged after eleven days of the occurrence. In this connection attention is invited to the statement recorded in paragraph 58 of the case diary wherein the doctor, who treated the deceased just before her death, has been examined to establish that the deceased died on account of heart failure 2 after suffering dehydration. Appreciating such statement the husband of the deceased has been allowed regular bail by another Bench of this Court under orders dated 12.1.2009 (Annexure-4). Having heard Counsel for the parties, in the light of the statement recorded in paragraph 58 of the case diary that the deceased died on account of heart failure as she suffered from dehydration, I direct the petitioners, namely, Shivchandra Singh, Santosh Kumar, Gautam Kumar alias Guddu (In Cr.Misc.No.5834 of 2009) and Vidya Nand Singh and Shail Devi (In Cr.Misc.No.8269 of 2009) surrender in the court below within four weeks from today and thereafter they be admitted to the privilege of bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.5,000/- (five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Goraul (Kathara) P.S.case No.108 of 2008, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Narendra/ ( V. N. Sinha, J. )