Kedar Prasad Rajak v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14148 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-67 Year-2022 Thana- MAHILA P.S. District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== 1.

Kedar Prasad Rajak S/O Late Rilo Rajak @ Relo Rajak R/O VillageRamnagar East, P.S- Nawada Town, Distt.- Nawada. 2.

Phulmanti Devi W/O Kedar Prasad Rajak @ Kedar Prasad R/O VillageRamnagar East, P.S- Nawada Town, Distt.- Nawada. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar 2.

Khushu Kumari D/O Laxmi Narayan Rajak R/O Muhalla- Hanumannagar, Ward No. 21, P.S- Kabaiya, Distt.- Lakhisarai. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Dilip Kr. No. 1, APP For the Informant :

Md. Irshad, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 19-11-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. Dilip Kr. No. 1, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State and learned counsel for the informant.

2.

The petitioners apprehends their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable u/s 341, 323, 307, 498A, 506/34 of IPC and 3/ 4 of D.P. Act.

3.

Allegedly, the petitioners along with other co-accused persons have abused and assaulted the informant over demand of dowry. They also tried to sprinkle kerosene oil over the person of the informant and threatened her to dire consequenses. 4.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners are quite innocent and have committed no offence. They have been falsely implicated in this case. No such occurrence, in the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14148 of 2024(4) dt.19-11-2024 2/2 manner as alleged, has ever taken place. Petitioners are in-laws of the informant and are of old age. Informant is a quarrelsome lady and always pressed her husband not to cooperate and look after his parents (petitioners). She does not want to live with petitioners.. She herself poured kerosene oil and started crying to put the petitioners behind the bar. Petitioners have neither made any dowry demand nor drove her out of her matrimonial home nor tormented her over the demand of dowry. Petitioners have no criminal antecedent. 5.

Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for bail. 6.

Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, and since the petitioners are in-laws of the informant, let the above named petitioners, be released on bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No.67 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) priyanka/- U T