IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.24322 of 2008 1. GODAWARI DEVI 2. Priyanka Kumari 3. Surya Narayan Yadav Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 4. 07.11.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners, who are the family members of the husband, apprehend arrest in a complaint case under Sections 498A of the Penal Code and Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. While submitting that the allegations are general against the petitioners, it is fairly acknowledged that the husband of the complainant was still evading the law. In the facts and circumstances of the case, let petitioners 1 and 3 surrender before the court below within four weeks from today, when they shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail for a period of three months on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.D.J.M., Madhubani in complaint case no. 365 of 2007. If subsequently the husband of the complainant subjects himself to the jurisdiction of law and Courts and petitioners 1 & 3 present themselves physically and surrender to the jurisdiction of the court below within a period of three months, their application for bail shall be considered appropriately in light 2 of the subsequent developments and disposed off in accordance with the guidelines laid down by this Court for grant of bail in 498 A matters without being inhibited by the limited grant of anticipatory bail by this Court. Considering that petitioner no. 2 is a unmarried girl, let, her surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks from today, when she shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.DJ.M., Madhubani in Complaint case No. 365 of 2007. AKS/ (Navin Sinha, J.)