Savitri Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14304 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-281 Year-2023 Thana- SANDESH District- Bhojpur ====================================================== 1.
Savitri Devi wife of Hare Ram Goswami Village- Deuwar Ps- Sandesh DistBhojpur 2.
Hare Ram Goswami son of Late Ganga Dayal Goswami Village- Deuwar Ps- Sandesh Dist- Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Shiv Prasad Gupta, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Shahabuddin Azeem @ S. Azeem, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 12-03-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Sandesh P.S. Case No. 281 of 2023 dated 25.11.2023 for the offence punishable u/s 304B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioners and coaccused husband of the daughter of the informant committed her dowry death on account of non-fulfillment of their demand of Rs. 10 lakh and an air-conditioner.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14304 of 2024(2) dt.12-03-2024 2/3 petitioners are innocent and have been falsely implicated in this case. The petitioners are parents-in-law of the deceased who committed suicide by hanging herself. The petitioners are separate from the co-accused husband of the deceased and the partition in the family took place just a few days after the marriage. The petitioners never demanded any dowry and never tortured the daughter of the informant. During investigation police recorded statement of the witnesses who stated about the daughter of the informant committing suicide. Nothing came up against the petitioners during the whole investigation. The petitioners have got no criminal antecedent.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and considering the general and vague nature of allegation against the petitioners and further considering possibility of false implication, let the above named petitioners, in the event of their arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court concerned, Bhojpur in connection with Sandesh
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14304 of 2024(2) dt.12-03-2024 3/3 P.S. Case No. 281 of 2023, subject to conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
7. The application stands allowed.
(Arun Kumar Jha, J) Prakash/- U