Soniya Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.15263 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-90 Year-2025 Thana- Chakki District- Buxar ====================================================== 1.
Soniya Devi W/o Sitaram Yadav R/o vill - Hemdapur, P.S.- Chakki, Distt.- Buxar, Bihar 2.
Kanchan Kumari D/o Subhash Yadav R/o vill - Hemdapur, P.S.- Chakki, Distt.- Buxar, Bihar 3.
Gita Devi W/o Subhash Yadav R/o vill - Hemdapur, P.S.- Chakki, Distt.- Buxar, Bihar 4.
Subhash Yadav S/o Sitaram Yadav R/o vill - Hemdapur, P.S.- Chakki, Distt.- Buxar, Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Abhay Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Ram Priya Sharan Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AJIT KUMAR ORAL ORDER 29-04-2026 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Chakki P.S. Case No. 90/2025 F.I.R dated 30.07.2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 123, 80 read with Section 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
3. According to prosecution case, the petitioners along with the co-accused persons are said to have poisoned the informant's daughter due to non-fulfillment of demand of
2/4 dowry.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case. There is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners who are grandmother-in-law, mother-in-law, sisterin-law and father-in-law respectively. The husband of the deceased, namely, Sanoj Yadav has been granted regular bail by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 01.04.2026 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 12510 of 2026. The petitioners have got no criminal antecedent.
5. The informant, during the course of deposition of the trial which is undertaken in respect of husband of the deceased, has deposed that under misconception, such allegations were levelled against the petitioners. Learned counsel for the petitioners next submitted that the petitioners would co-operate in the investigation and as also would make them available for the trial, in case they are sent up by the prosecution, and finding their complicity in the case and chargesheet are submitted against them.
6. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail application.
7. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances
3/4 that the informant in his deposition has accepted that allegations were made because of misconception and further that there is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners, accordingly, this Court is inclined to grant the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners.
8. Let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of the order, be released 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 Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Buxar in connection with Chakki P.S. Case No. 90/2025 , subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure / Section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and with other following conditions:- (i) one of the bailors should be the family member/relative/known of the petitioner(s) who shall provide official document/personal affidavit to show his/her bona fide; (ii) the petitioner(s) shall appear on each and every date before the Trial Court and failure to do so for two consecutive dates without plausible reason will entail cancellation of his/her/their bail bond by the Trial Court itself;
4/4 (iii) the petitioner(s) shall in no way try to induce or promise or threat the witnesses or tamper with the evidences, failing which the State shall be at liberty to take steps for cancellation of the bail bonds;
(iv) the petitioner(s) shall desist from committing any criminal offence again, failing which the State shall be at liberty to take steps for cancellation of their bail bonds. (Ajit Kumar, J) atul/- U T