Tusi Devi @ Khushboo Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21214 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-265 Year-2022 Thana- BAKHTIYARPUR District- Patna ====================================================== TUSI DEVI @ KHUSHBOO DEVI W/o Bangali Yadav @ Vinod Singh According to FIR she is resident of Village-Teja Bigha, P.S. Bakhtiyarpur, District-Patna. But she is resident of Village Chainpur, P.S. Khusroopur District-Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Manoj Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Madhuri Lata, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 27-06-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304(B), 201 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is married sister-in-law (married nanad). Learned counsel next submits that inadvertently at paragraph 16 of the anticipatory bail application it has been pleaded that the husband of the deceased is in judicial custody. It is next submitted that the husband of the deceased has not surrendered and is availing his remedies available in law, it is further submitted that from perusal of the allegation as alleged in the FIR it would manifest that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21214 of 2023(2) dt.27-06-2023 2/2 demand of dowry is general and omnibus in nature, it is next submitted even informant is not an eye witness to the occurrence and the petitioner being married nanad of the deceased was living separately with her husband and children, it is next submitted that whenever such occurrence takes place the entire family members are implicated.

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

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 Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 265 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) GauravSinha/- U T