Rampukar Sah @ Pukar Sah v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.22154 of 2021 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-285 Year-2020 Thana- LALGANJ District- Vaishali ====================================================== 1.

RAMPUKAR SAH @ PUKAR SAH S/o Late Ramsurat Sah R/o villageKamalpur, P.S.- Lalganj, District- Vaishali 2.

SUNDER DEVI W/o Rampukar Sah @ Pukar Sah R/o village- Kamalpur, P.S.- Lalganj, District- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Harish Kumar no. II, Advocate Mr. Gajendra Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State :

Mr. Yogendra Kumar Singh, APP For the Informant :

Mr. Shashi Shekhar Sharma, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 15-11-2021 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

The petitioners have preferred this application for grant of regular bail in a case registered under sections 304B, 201 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

As per the prosecution case, the sister of the informant was married to the son of the two petitioners herein. It is stated that she was tortured and ultimately done to death. Subsequently, the dead body was recovered and there were marks of assault etc which transpired in the postmortem examination.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are the father-in-law and mother-in-law of

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22154 of 2021(3) dt.15-11-2021 2/2 the deceased. They have been falsely implicated in the case because of their relationship. They have been living separately from their son i.e. the husband of the deceased. They are in custody since 18.9.2020 and 16.12.2020 respectively. They have no criminal antecedent.

The application for bail is opposed by learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that not only the petitioners are named in the FIR but there is direct allegation against them of having tortured the sister of the informant. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the facts of the case together with the period in custody of the two petitioners, the Court directs the petitioners to be enlarged on bail in connection with Lalganj P.S. Case no. 285 of 2020 on each of them furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate IX, Vaishali at Hajipur.

(Partha Sarthy, J) Prakash/- U