Usha Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.3365 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-361 Year-2025 Thana- UDWANTNAGAR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Usha Devi, W/o- Chandralok Singh, Resident of Village- West Nima, Police Station- Udwant Nagar, District- Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tiwary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 28-01-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of anticipatory bail apprehending her arrest in connection with Udwant Nagar P.S. Case no.361 of 2025 registered under sections 80(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023,

3. As per the prosecution case, the informant states that his daughter was married to the son of the petitioner herein. The accused persons including the petitioner tortured his daughter for non-fulfillment of the demand of dowry by way of a gold chain and a motorcycle. She was ultimately done to death.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner, who happens to be the old mother-in-law of the deceased, has been falsely implicated in the case. Besides

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3365 of 2026(2) dt.28-01-2026 2/3 the allegations being general and omnibus in nature, the petitioner lives separately from her son and the deceased daughter-in-law and has no concern with their day to day affairs. The allegations against the petitioner are false and concocted and all the family members/relatives have thus been made accused in the case. The petitioner who is a lady has no criminal antecedent and undertakes to cooperate in the investigation.

5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegation against the petitioner in the F.I.R, the petitioner being the mother-in-law of the deceased together with the contents of the postmortem report which finds mention in the order of the learned Court below wherein the death is said to have been caused due to suffocation arising out of throttling of neck of the deceased, the Court is not inclined to enlarge the petitioner on anticipatory bail and the application is rejected.

7. The petitioner is directed to surrender in the learned Court below within a period of four weeks.

8. In case the petitioner so surrenders within the aforesaid period and prays for regular bail, the same shall be

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3365 of 2026(2) dt.28-01-2026 3/3 considered on its own merits without being prejudiced by this order of rejection.

(Partha Sarthy, J) avinash/- U T