Meena Devi @ Veena Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.10426 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-44 Year-2024 Thana- PAUTHU District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Meena Devi @ Veena Devi Wife of Sukhu Yadav Resident of Village-Pathak Bigha, P.S.- Pauthu, District- Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Binod Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 27-06-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Pauthu P.S. Case No. 44 of 2024 instituted for the offences under Sections 302, 201, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Prosecution case, in short, is that the accused persons including the petitioner have killed the deceased.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case. Petitioner is the mother-in-law of the deceased. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that general and omnibus allegation has been made against the petitioner. No specific overt act is alleged against the petitioner. Learned counsel further submitted that petitioner is separate in mess and business and has got no concern in the family affairs of the deceased and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10426 of 2025(3) dt.27-06-2025 2/2 her husband. Husband of the deceased is already in custody. Learned counsel further submitted that as per paragraph nos. 27 and 28 of the case diary, the specific allegation of assaulting the deceased is against the husband of the deceased. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as also there being no specific allegation against the petitioner, let the petitioner, above named, in the event of arrest/surrender before the Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with Pauthu P.S. Case No. 44 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Alok Verma/- U T