Binod Mandal @ Vinod Mandal v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.35619 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-265 Year-2022 Thana- MADHEPURA COMPALINT CASE District- Madhepura ====================================================== Binod Mandal @ Vinod Mandal S/O - Upendra Mandal R/O - Vill -Charaiya Ward No 12, Birnagar, P.S - Bhargama , District- Araria ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
1. The State of Bihar
2. Ritan Devi, W/o Binod Mandal R/o Charaiya Ward No. 12, Veernagar, P.O. Charaiya, P.S. Bhargama, District - Araria.
... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner :
Mr. Bambahadur Jha, Advocate For the State :
Mrs.Veena Kumari Jaiswal, APP For the O.P.No.2 :
None ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 26-09-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. Despite valid service of notice, nobody appears on behalf of opposite party no. 2.
2. The petitioner, husband of the opposite party no. 2, apprehends his arrest in a complaint case punishable for the offence under Sections 323, 494, 498A, 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
3. Allegation against petitioner is of matrimonial cruelty and demand of dowry.
4. While denying the allegations made in the complaint petition, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case merely
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.35619 of 2024(5) dt.26-09-2024 2/2 because he happens to be husband of opposite party no. 2. He never demanded any dowry or committed torture with opposite party no. 2 or and is still ready to keep the opposite party no. 2 and children with full honour and dignity. Moreover, the case is triable by the learned 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.
5. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of eight weeks from today, let this petitioner, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Madhepura in connection with Complaint Case No. 265 of 2022, subject to the conditions, as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) anay U T