Sunil Kumar Paswan @ Sunil Paswan And ANR v. State Of Bihar And ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.40003 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -865 Year- 2016 Thana -KATIHAR COMPLAINT CASE DistrictKATIHAR ======================================================

1. Sunil Kumar Paswan @ Sunil Paswan, Son of Late Jagdish Paswan, resident of Village - Nawabganj, P.S. Manihari, District - Katihar.

2. Most Urmila Devi, Wife of Late Jagdish Paswan, resident of Village - Nawabganj, P.S. Manihari, District - Katihar. .... .... Petitioners

Versus

1. The State of Bihar.

2. Puja Devi, Wife of Sunil Kumar Paswan, daughter of Kishore Paswan, resident of Village Nawaganj, Balu Tola, P.S. Masnihari, District Katihar. .... .... Opposite Parties ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioners : Mr. Jitendra Kumar Pandey, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Aditya Narayan Singh 1, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH ORAL ORDER 25-08-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State.

The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with C.A. No. 865/2016 for the offences instituted under Section 498(A) of the IPC.

The prosecution story, in brief, is that the accused persons including the petitioners tortured the complainant due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry.

It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent. There is no allegation of tampering with the witnesses alleged

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40003 of 2017 (2) dt.25-08-2017 2/2 against the petitioners. They have falsely been implicated in the present case due to petty family dispute. The case is triable by the Magistrate. The petitioners have further relied upon the judgment of this Court in the case of Md. Naimul Haque Ansari @ Naimul Haque Ansari & Ors. Vs. The State of Bihar, reported in 2006(3) PLJR 182.

It has been submitted by learned counsel for the State that the petitioners are named in the complaint case. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioners above named, be released on bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with C.A. No. 865/2016 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Katihar, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Sudhir Singh, J) U T