Pradip Sao v. State Of Bihar And ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.46609 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -67 Year- 2017 Thana -SHEKHPURA COMPLAINT CASE DistrictSEKHPURA ====================================================== Pradip Sao, S/O Videshi Saw, R/V- Charuawan, P.S. Shekhopur Sarai, District-Sheikhpura.

.... .... Petitioner

Versus

1. The State of Bihar.

2. Mamta Devi, W/O Pradip Sao. D/O Sri Ashok Sao, R/V + P.S. Burkunda, District-Ramgarh, Jharkhand.

.... .... Opposite Parties ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner : Mr. Ajit Kumar, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Rajendra Prasad Nat, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH ORAL ORDER 21-09-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case for the offence registered under Sections 498(A), 494, 323 and 379 of the IPC and Section 3⁄4 of the D. P. Act.

The prosecution story, in brief, is that the accused persons including the petitioner tortured the victim due to nonfulfillment of demand of dowry. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent. There is no allegation of tampering with the witnesses alleged against the petitioner. The petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.46609 of 2017 (26) dt.21-09-2017 2/2 case due to petty family dispute. The case is triable by the Magistrate. The petitioner has 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.

On behalf of the learned counsels for the State, it has been submitted that the petitioner is named in the F.I.R/ complaint case.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioner above named, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Sheikhpura in connection with Complaint Case No. 67C/2017, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

U.K./- (Sudhir Singh, J) U T