Dharmendra Yadav @ Dharmendra Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.12643 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-718 Year-2024 Thana- NALANDA COMPLAINT CASE District- Nalanda ====================================================== Dharmendra Yadav @ Dharmendra Kumar S/O Jawahir Yadav @ Javahir Prasad @ Jawahar Prasad Dharmendra Resident of village- Gandhinagar, P.s.- Parwalpur, Dist.- Nalanda.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar 2.

Smriti Devi Wife of Dharmendra Yadav Resident of village- Gandhinagar, P.S.- Parwalpur, District- Nalanda at present daughter of Late Sukhdev Yadav, resident of village- Diripar, P.S.- Noorsarai, District- Nalanda. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner :

Mr. Manoj Kumar, Advocate For the State :

Mr. Pramod Kumar Pandey, APP For the OP=2 :

None ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 09-07-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. Despite valid service of notice, nobody appears on behalf of opposite party no. 2.

2. The petitioner, husband of the opposite party no. 2, apprehends his arrest in a complaint case punishable for the offence under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Allegation against petitioner is of matrimonial cruelty and demand for dowry.

4. While denying the allegations made in the complaint petition, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case merely because he happens to be husband of opposite party no. 2. At no point of time, petitioner demanded any dowry or committed

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12643 of 2026(4) dt.09-07-2026 2/2 torture with opposite party no. 2 and she (opposite party no. 2) left her matrimonial house out of her own sweet will. Moreover, the case is triable by the learned Magistrate. The petitioner has further relied upon the judgment of this Court in the case of Md. Naimul Haque Ansari @ Naimul Haque Ansari & Ors. Vs. The State of Bihar, reported in 2006(3) PLJR 182.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the prayer for bail.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of eight weeks from today, let this petitioner, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned J.M. 1st Class, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Complaint Case No. 718C of 2024, subject to the conditions, as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. / Section 482 of the B.N.S.S., 2023.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) anay U T