Shaziya Khatoon @ Shaziya Praween v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.10736 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-262 Year-2025 Thana- CHAKAND District- Gaya ====================================================== Shaziya Khatoon @ Shaziya Praween, D/o Matloob Alam, R/o Village - Bara, P.O. - Bara, P.S - Chakand, District - Gaya Jee, Bihar. ... ... Petitioner
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Murli Dhar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA ORAL ORDER 23-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The accused/petitioner is named in the FIR and apprehending her arrest in connection with Chakand P.S. Case No.262 of 2025 registered under Sections 103 read with 3(5) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (in short 'B.N.S.').
3. As per FIR, the husband of informant was murdered by co-accused persons including this petitioner due to family property dispute. The petitioner is the sister of the deceased husband of the informant.
4. It is submitted by learned counsel appearing for petitioner that petitioner has been falsely implicated with
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10736 of 2026(2) dt.23-02-2026 2/3 present case, as she is the sister of deceased and was living separately at Nawada, where she is working as a government teacher. It is pointed out that in fact there was a matrimonial discord between deceased and informant and out of which, the deceased developed depression and due to that, after coming to his home at Gaya, when on one occasion, some hot discussion took place with informant over the phone, he committed suicide. It is submitted that to save herself, the informant after coming from Kolkata, implicated entire family members without any reason under the garb of property dispute. It is submitted that petitioner is a lady of clean antecedent.
5. Learned APP opposed the prayer of bail.
6. In view of aforesaid factual submissions and by taking note of fact as prima facie petitioner, who is the sister of deceased claimed to live separately at his working place Nawada, who is a lady of clean antecedent, accordingly, the petitioner, above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks from today, is directed to be released on bail on furnishing
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.10736 of 2026(2) dt.23-02-2026 3/3 bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M.-V, Gaya in connection with Chakand P.S. Case No.262 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (in short 'CrPC')/under Section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (in short 'BNSS').
(Chandra Shekhar Jha, J.) Sanjeet/- U T