Kriti Kumari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21871 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-30 Year-2022 Thana- MAHILA PS District- Jehanabad ====================================================== KRITI KUMARI WIFE OF PANKAJ KUMAR R/O VILLAGE- SARAUNJI, P.S.- MAHAKAR, DISTRICT- GAYA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Arvind Prasad Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Ms. Indu Kumari Srivastava, APP For the Informant :

Mr. Ranjay Kumar Singh, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 19-06-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel for the informant. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498A, 504, 354, 313, 379, 494 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and under Section 3 /4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is the second wife of the husband of the informant.

The learned counsel next submits that even petitioner was duped by the husband of the informant as she was not knowing that the husband of the petitioner was married from before. It is next submitted that it absolutely does not stand to reason that what material facts transpired before the learned trial court based on which the learned District Judge recorded in the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21871 of 2023(2) dt.19-06-2023 2/2 impugned order that petitioner being aware that husband of the informant was married from before still performed her marriage with him. It is further submitted that no girl would deliberately want to spoil her own future by indulging in such an occurrence. The learned A.P.P. for the State along with learned counsel for the informant 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. 5,000/- (Rupees Five 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 Jehanabad (Mahila) P.S. Case No. 30 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T