Patna High CourtCR. MISC./17320/2024bail granted

Sangita Devi @ Sunita Devi v. The State Of Bihar

2024-03-21Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17320 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-353 Year-2023 Thana- SONEPUR District- Saran ====================================================== SANGITA DEVI @ SUNITA DEVI W/O LATE BIJENDRA RAI R/O VILLAGE- RAHAR DIYARA, P.S- SONEPUR, DISTT.- SARAN. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Krishna Yadav For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Gulnar Begum ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 21-03-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 366(A) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and has been falsely implicated in the present case by the informant who is father of the victim. It is further submitted that since the victim and Dharmendra Kumar were in love as such they eloped and the informant in order to coerce Dharmendra into submission instituted the instant case falsely implicating the petitioner who is mother of Dharmendra. It is further submitted that the statement of the victim was recorded under Section 164

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17320 of 2024(2) dt.21-03-2024 2/2 Cr.P.C. wherein she disclosed her age as 18 years and did not support the case of the prosecution.

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Sonepur P.S. Case No. 353 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T