Patna High CourtCR. MISC./13465/2025bail granted

Umesh Kumar @ Umeh Ram @ Umesh Ram v. The State Of Bihar

2025-05-15Mr. Justice Anil Kumar Sinha3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13465 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-80 Year-2019 Thana- DARBHANGA COMPLAINT CASE District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Umesh Kumar @ Umeh Ram @ Umesh Ram S/o- Late Arjun Ram VillageKabirchak PS-Sadar Distt- Darbhanga ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar 2.

Nibha Devi D/o- Chote Ram Village- Keotiranwe Ps- Keotiranwe DistDarbhanga ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Shivnandan Bharti For the State :

Ms.Indu Kumari Srivastava For Opposite Party No. 2:

Mr. Kedar Jha ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 15-05-2025

1. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner, learned Counsel for the informant and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No. 80 of 2019, in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A/323 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report, is that the marriage of the complainant was solemnized with the petitioner in the year 2014 and after sometime, the petitioner and other family members started demanding motorcycle by way of dowry and due to non-

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13465 of 2025(3) dt.15-05-2025 2/3 fulfillment of the said demand, the petitioner and other family members tortured the complainant physically as well as mentally and also ousted the complainant from her matrimonial home.

4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has not committed any offence in the manner alleged and he has falsely been implicated in this case. However, without prejudice to the right and contention of the petitioner, and in order to maintain harmony in the family, the petitioner is ready and willing to pay a sum of Rs. 5,000/- per month to the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2 as living cost, subject to the final outcome of the present case as well as the matrimonial case, if any, pending and/or decided between the parties.

5. Learned Counsel for the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2 accepts the offer so made by learned Counsel for the petitioner and submits that the petitioner may be directed to deposit the said amount of Rs. 5,000/- per month in the bank account of the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2, details of which shall be furnished by learned Counsel for the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2 to learned Counsel for the petitioner within fifteen days from today.

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6. After having heard learned Counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the materials on record and the fact that the offer made by learned Counsel for the petitioner has been accepted by learned Counsel for the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail.

7. This application is, accordingly, allowed.

8. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest/surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on bail, upon furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Darbhanga, in connection with Complaint Case No. 80 of 2019.

9. This is subject to the condition that the petitioner shall deposit a sum of Rs. 5,000/- per month in the bank account of the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2 positively, starting from 07th June, 2025.

(Anil Kumar Sinha, J.) Prabhakar Anand/- U √ T √