Bijali Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32199 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-22 Year-2023 Thana- MAHILA P.S. District- Madhubani ====================================================== 1.
BIJALI DEVI WIFE OF VIRENDAR JHA @ VIRENDRA KUMAR JHA RESIDENT OF VILLAGE - MAHADEV MATH, P.S. - ANDHARA MATH, DISTRICT - MADHUBANI 2.
VIRENDRA KUMAR JHA @ VIRENDAR JHA SON OF RAM MANOHAR JHA RESIDENT OF VILLAGE - BASDIHA, P.S. - NARARI KALA KHURD, DISTRICT - AURANGABAD ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
1.
THE STATE OF BIHAR 2.
RUPAM JHA @ RUPAM DEVI WIFE OF CHANCHAL KUMAR AND DAUGHTER OF MITHILESH JHA RESIDENT OF VILLAGE - BARHARA, P.O. - BARHARA, P.S. - BABUBARHI, DISTRICT - MADHUBANI, PIN CODE - 847401 ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Subhash Kumar Jha, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Ms.Nirmala Kumari, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 21-05-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned counsel for the informant and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No. 22 of 2023 registered on 11.06.2023 under Sections 341, 323, 504, 506, 498(A)/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3⁄4 of the D.P. Act.
3. As per prosecution case, the informant happens to be the daughter-in-law of these petitioners who are alleged to have tortured her due to non fulfillment of demand of dowry and ultimately ousted her from her matrimonial house on
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.32199 of 2024(2) dt.21-05-2024 2/2 19.04.2023 after snatching her belongings.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners being mother-in-law and father-in-law of the informant are innocent and they have falsely been implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that the petitioners are separate in mess and business. Allegation of torture and harassment is general and omnibus and no overt act has been attributed to the petitioners.
5. Having considered the above facts and circumstances of the case, prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners is, hereby, allowed. In the event of arrest/surrender within six weeks from today, let the petitioners, above named, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Madhubani, in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No. 22 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
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