IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.11495 of 2008 1. SARITA DEVI @ CHUNAIL DEVI 2. SANTOSH KUMAR @ SANTOSH KR. SAWARN 3. VANKATESH SHARMA @ VINKATESH KUMAR--- ---PETITIONERS Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 5.9.2008 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with S.K. Puri P.S. Case No.163/07 for the alleged offences registered under sections 304B, 201 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. The allegation against these petitioners as has been levelled by the informant is to the effect that he claimed that these petitioners along with other co-accused had burnt his daughter to death. Further allegation is that on inquiry by the informant co- accused Deepak Kumar, the husband of the deceased, and Sukhdeo Sharma, who happens to be the father-in-law, started speaking irrelevant things and said that they had burnt his daughter to death and do whatever you can. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that without levelling any allegation against these petitioners, who are the members of the in-law’s family, the informant claimed that they had killed his daughter by burning. It is further submitted that on perusal of the summary notes of Buddha Burn Hospital, where the deceased was taken for treatment by co-accused Deepak Kumar, the husband of 2 the deceased, on the same day i.e. 25.8.2007 at 11.30 P.M. and later on 27.8.2007 co-accused Deepak Kumar got her discharged from the said Hospital for being taken to the P.M.C.H., where the informant was also present and put his signature over the discharge summary notes of the said Hospital where he wrote only Ramesh Kumar, it would appear that the lodging of the present case is an afterthought. The learned APP on perusal of the case diary submits that no material has come against these petitioners upon investigation. Considering the above, it is directed that all the petitioners above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender in connection with S.K. Puri P.S. Case No.163/07, within a period of four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna, in connection with the aforesaid case, on the conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. PNM (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)