IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.23350 of 2010 ASHOK SINGH & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02. 04.08.2010 Petitioners being the husband and family members of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Sections 304B/34 I.P.C. It is alleged that the marriage took place in 2004 whereas the victim died on 03.08.2007 for which a complaint was filed on 30.08.2007 which ultimately got to be registered as a police case on 30.01.2010. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that subsequently the informant filed an application for withdrawal of the complaint that caused delay in transmitting the case to the police. So far as petitioner No. 1 namely Ashok Singh, the husband is concerned, since the death has taken place within seven years of the marriage and there is allegation of torture and demand of dowry, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner No. 1 namely Ashok Singh. The application for anticipatory bail of petitioner No. 1 is rejected. So far as petitioner Nos. 2 to 7 are concerned, there is general allegation. Considering the delayed lodging of the 2 complaint and ultimately registration of the F.I.R. after about two and half years and also the fact that the complainant retracted from his initial version, let the petitioner No. 2, Mukesh Singh, petitioner No. 3 Arjun Singh petitioner No. 4 Rukmini Devi petitioner No. 5 Madhumala Devi, petitioner No. 6 Pappu Singh, petitioner No. 7 Sunita @ Sunita Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Akbarpur P.S. Case No. 39 of 2010. Shageer ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)