Manjee Singh @ Manjee Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.8197 of 2015 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -5 Year- 2015 Thana -AGIAUN BAZAR District- BHOJPUR ====================================================== Manjee Singh @ Manjee Kumar .... .... Petitioner

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

For the Petitioner : Mr. Anil Kumar Singh, Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Mr. A.M.P.Mehta(App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04-03-2015 Heard the learned counsels for the petitioner and the State.

The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498(A) of the Indian Penal Code and 3/4 of the D. P. Act.

The basic accusation is of torture for nonfulfillment of dowry demand. On instruction, it is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour, a statement to that effect has been made in paragraph no. 10 of the petition which reads as follows:- "10. That the petitioner is always ready to keep and maintain her in joint family with full love and affection but the informant is not ready to live with her husband in the joint family".

Considering the present stand of the

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8197 of 2015 (2) dt.04-03-2015 2 / 2 petitioner, let the petitioner, above named, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Agiaon Bazar P.S. Case No.

of on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M., Bhojpur at Ara, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Let the learned court below issue notice to the informant and on her appearance the petitioner will take the informant to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour.

The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned court below in three eventualities i.e., (i) if the matrimonial harmony is substantially restored within one year (ii) or the informant fails to appear before the learned court below (iii) or she gets reluctant to reconcile the issue.

U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J) U T