Sugrive Pandit v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7998 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-161 Year-2022 Thana- COMPLAINT CASE District- Banka ====================================================== SUGRIVE PANDIT Son of Ramesh Pandit R/V- Mangar Buzurg, P.S- Sanour Godda, Dist- Jharkhand ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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The State of Bihar 2.

Guddi Devi Wife of Sugriv Pandit, D/o Yogendra Pandit R/V- Parghari, P.sBarahalt, Dist- Banka ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Md. Najmul Hodda, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Pushpa Sinha.1, A.P.P.

For the Informant :

Mr. Ajay Mukherjee, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 07-07-2023 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and opposite party No.2.

The petitioner who is husband of opposite party No. 2 apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 323, 498A, 504 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner offers and undertakes that he is ready to give maintenance amount of Rs. 4000/- per month, starting from this month, to opposite party No. 2.

In view of the undertaking of learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is ready to give maintenance amount of Rs. 4000/- per month, in the event of arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, above-named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7998 of 2023(3) dt.07-07-2023 2/2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Banka in connection with Complaint Case No. 161 of 2022, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as well as on the following conditions:-

(1) Opposite party No. 2 would file an affidavit before the court below and bring on record her savings bank account number for its communication to the petitioner.

(2) Petitioner would deposit the aforesaid maintenance amount per month in the savings bank account of the opposite party No. 2.

(3) In case, the petitioner fails to deposit the maintenance amount for two consecutive months, the court below would be at liberty to cancel the bail-bond.

(4) The aforementioned payment will be subject to any order passed in matrimonial, maintenance or connected proceedings. The present order, in no way, will preclude the parties to resolve the issue otherwise.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Navya/- U T