Patna High CourtCR. MISC./21632/2025bail granted

Md. Zahid Alam @ Jahid Alam v. The State Of Bihar

2025-07-22Justice Smt. Soni Shrivastava3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21632 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-336 Year-2022 Thana- COMPLAINT CASE DistrictKishanganj ====================================================== Md. Zahid Alam @ Jahid Alam S/o- Sher Mohammad Village- Sundarbari Matiyari Ps- Tedhagachh District- Kishanganj ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar 2.

Gufrana Begum D/o- Ataur Rahman, W/o- Md. Zahid Alam @ Jahid Alam Village- Matiyari Ps- Tedhagachh District- Kishanganj ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ram Prawesh Kumar, Advocate For the State :

Mr. Ajay Kumar No. 2, APP For the O.P. No.2 :

Mr. Raj Kumar, Advocate :

Mr. Pratik Kumar, Advocate :

Ms. Chitra Dwivedi, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 22-07-2025 Learned counsel for the petitioner, learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the O.P. No.2.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 323, 504 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

3. The allegation against the petitioner is of demand of dowry and torture and petitioner is the husband.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the allegation of demand of dowry and torture is false and concocted. The petitioner is always ready to keep his wife with

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21632 of 2025(3) dt.22-07-2025 2/3 full dignity and honour but it is the complainant/opposite party no.2 who never wants to live with the petitioner. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent and undertakes to co-operate in case/trial.

5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State as also learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2.

6. At this stage, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner makes an offer to pay Rs. 3,500/- to his wife in the second week of every month for her basic requirements. It goes without saying that the aforesaid payment shall be subject to any order passed in matrimonial maintenance case or any other collateral proceeding.

7. Considering the aforesaid facts of the case, it is directed that the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Complaint Case No. 336 of 2022 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure/Section

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21632 of 2025(3) dt.22-07-2025 3/3 482(2) of the B.N.S.S, 2023 and subject to the further condition that the petitioner shall co-operate in the investigation/trial.

8. If the opposite party no. 2 furnishes the Bank account in which the amount can be transferred and yet the petitioner fails to make the aforesaid payment of Rs. 3,500/- on two consecutive dates, the opposite party no. 2 would be at liberty to file cancellation of bail.

(Soni Shrivastava, J) ajay/- U T