IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.21894 of 2011 Lakhan Swarnkar & Ors. Versus The State of Bihar & Anr. ----------- 02 15.07.2011 The petitioners being the father, elder brother, uncle and married sister of the informant’s husband, are apprehending their arrest in Bakhtiarpur P.S.Case No. 63 of 2011 registered under Sections 341, 323, 379, 498(A)/34 of the I.P.C. and 3/ 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is for demand of Rs.2 lakhs for the non-fulfillment whereof the informant is alleged to have been inflicted with torture. Earlier a complaint case for restitution of conjugal life and maintenance case had also been filed against these petitioners which ultimately ended in compromise and was thus withdrawn. On resumption of conjugal life once again torture was inflicted. It has finally been alleged that on 18.8.2010 the petitioners brought the informant to Mateshardham on the pretext of worship, whereafter her belongings were snatched and she was left there. The learned counsel for the petitioners states that the husband is always ready to keep his wife with full dignity and honour and that the only specific allegation levelled is with regard to the occurrence on 18.8.2010, when the FIR was lodged. Considering the contention of the petitioners, since 2 the petitioner no.4 is the married sister of the husband and resides at her own matrimonial house, let petitioner no.4 (Rani Devi, wife of Tarkeshwar Swarnkar) be released on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection with Bakhtiarpur P.S.Case No.63 of 2011 in the event of her arrest or surrender within twelve weeks from the date of communication of this order, subject to the conditions as laid down under Sections 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. This Court is, however, is not inclined to grant the privilege of anticipatory bail to petitioner nos.1 to 3 at this stage and the antiicpatory bail application as regards petitioner nos. 1 to 3 is accordingly rejected. However, considering that the thrust of the allegation is against the husband, in the opinion of this Court, this case is a fit one for grant of regular bail. Let the learned lower court consider the regular bail applications of the petitioner nos. 1, 2 and 3 and dispose of the same on the same day provided they surrender within a period of twelve weeks from the date of receipt of this order in the court below. psc (Vikash Jain, J.)