IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.43452 of 2010 1. DHARMENDRA SAHNI 2. BILASH SAHNI 3. PANO DEVI 4. GANESH SAHNI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----- 02. 08.04.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the state. Petitioners are brother-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in- law and uncle-in-law of the deceased alleged for killing the deceased for demand of dowry for which she was being tortured within seven years of the marriage in matrimonial home. Submission of the learned counsel for petitioners is that torture soon before the death is lacking and dead body is recovered from a river not from the house. There is clear assertion about torture soon before the death is not to doubt as it was continuous act of accused persons till death. No doubt, there is no recovery of the dead body from the house and from a river, but with injury that goes against accused persons for some addition. Petitioner no.4, if uncle of deceased’s husband may have participation in concealing the dead body. Accordingly, petitioner nos.1,2 and 3’s prayer for anticipatory bail stand rejected. So far as anticipatory bail petition of petitioner no.4 is concerned, he is allowed anticipatory bail. Accordingly, in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of one month from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, the above named petitioner no.4 shall be released on bail 2 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri Satya Prakash, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Muzaffarpur in connection with Hathauri P. S. Case No. 94 of 2008, Tr. No.2922 of 2010, subject to conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr. P. C. Vikash (Mandhata Singh, J.)