Basanti Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.10483 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -75 Year- 2016 Thana -JAMOBAZAR District- SIWAN ====================================================== Basanti Devi, Wife of Hari Lal Rai, Resident of village - Barhoga, Yadu Badhai Tola, Police Station Jamo Bazar, District - Siwan .... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bijay Prakash Singh, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mrs. Indu Kumari Srivastava, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 13-04-2017 Heard both sides.

The petitioner apprehends her arrest in Jamo Bazar P.S. Case No. 75/2016, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 366(A), 34 of the Indian Penal Code. The informant alleged that when he woke up in the morning he did not find his daughter. The informant suspected that the petitioner, who happens to be the wife of younger brother of the informant, enticed his daughter for the purpose of marriage with Pappu Kumar driver of J.C.V. vehicle.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and she in fact committed no offence. The informant further alleged that the petitioner earlier enticed the elder daughter of the informant, got her married with the brother

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10483 of 2017 (3) dt.13-04-2017 2/2 of the petitioner, but the informant did not lodge any case. It is further submitted that a partition suit is going on between the husband of the petitioner and the informant and that is why the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. The daughter of the informant herself left the house and fled away with Pappu Kumar.

Considering the facts aforesaid and the fact that petitioner is a lady and she is none else than the wife of the younger brother of the informant, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Jamo Bazar P.S. Case No. 75/2016, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. (Prabhat Kumar Jha, J.) Vinita/- U T