Lalit Chaupal v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.25719 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-139 Year-2020 Thana- SINGHWARA District- Darbhanga ====================================================== LALIT CHAUPAL Son of Late Vindeshwar Chaupal Resident of Village - Katasa, P.s.- Singhwara, Distt.- Darbhanga.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Ayush Kumar Mr. Mohit Shrivastava Adv.

Mr. Kanishak Kaushabh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs. Veena Kumar Jaiswal A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 31-08-2022 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to remove defect (s), as pointed out by the office, if any, within a period of four weeks on resumption of physical mode. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State.

The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in a case registered under section 304B read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and coaccused persons in connivance with one another are alleged to have strangulated the informant is daughter to death due to nonfulfillment of Rs. 50,000/- as dowry. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. Nothing has been recovered from the conscious

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25719 of 2022(2) dt.31-08-2022 2/2 possession of the petitioner. The petitioner neither demanded dowry nor tortured the daughter of the informant. The petitioner is the husband of the deceased. The petitioner has clean antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is in custody since 10.08.2020.

Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the period of detention, the petitioner abovenamed, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional District and Sessions Judge -V-Darbhanga in Sessions Trial No. 83/2021, arising out of Singhwara with P.S. Case No. 139 of 2020, with a condition:-

1. The petitioner is directed to remain physically present before the learned Court below on each and every date, failing which on two consecutive dates without reasonable cause, the bail bond of the petitioner is liable to be cancelled. The application stands allowed.

atul/- (Chandra Prakash Singh, J) U T