Nandu Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.26154 of 2019 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-144 Year-2018 Thana- PIPRAHI District- Sheohar ====================================================== Nandu Paswan Son of Late Bela Paswan, Resident of Village - Meenapur, Balaha, P.S.- Piprahi, Distt.- Sheohar.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Hans Lal Kumar, Advocate.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Binod Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJENDRA KUMAR MISHRA ORAL ORDER 23-04-2019 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Piprahi P.S. Case No.144 of 2018 registered under Sections 304(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

The accusation is that the marriage of the daughter of the informant was performed with Chandan Paswan, son of the petitioner, on 30.05.2018. Before two days, the daughter of the informant was taken in Bidai by the petitioner. Thereafter, on 21.10.2018, when the informant talked to her daughter on mobile phone, she complained that she is suffering from stomach pain, then the informant asked her daughter to take medicine. In the evening, the informant received information that her daughter has died. When the informant reached at the sasural house of her daughter, she found

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.26154 of 2019(2) dt.23-04-2019 2/2 the dead body of her daughter lying in the court yard. The informant raised suspicion that her daughter has been killed by her husband and father-in-law by administering poison.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the father-in-law of the daughter of the informant and no specific overt act in respect of torturing for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand has been attributed to the petitioner. Moreover, the husband of the daughter of the informant is already in custody. Having considered the facts and the circumstances of the case, let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender by him within six weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on his furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Sheohar, in connection with Piprahi P.S. Case No.144 of 2018, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C.

(Rajendra Kumar Mishra, J) P.S./- U T