Mantu Prasad And ORS v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.50834 of 2018 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -154 Year- 2015 Thana -MOHAMMADPUR District- GOPALGANJ ======================================================

1. Mantu Prasad, S/o Asho Prasad,

2. Kaushalaya Devi @ Srimati Kaushalaya Devi, W/o Mantu Prasad,

3. Gunjan Kumari, D/o Mantu Prasad, All R/o Vill.- Pakari, P.S.- Mohammadpur, District- Gopalganj.

.... .... Petitioners

Versus

The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioners : Mr. Uday Pratap Singh, Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH ORAL ORDER 18-08-2018 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case for the offence registered under Sections 304(B), 498(A) and 120(B)/34 of the IPC.

The prosecution story, in brief, is that the accused persons including the petitioners killed the victim due to nonfulfilment 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 against the petitioners. The petitioners have falsely been

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.50834 of 2018 (2) dt.18-08-2018 2/2 implicated in the present case due to petty family dispute. The petitioners are in-laws of the deceased. They are separate in mess and property from the husband of the deceased. From perusal of Annexure-2 series, it is evident that the deceased had died due to illness.

On behalf of the learned counsel for the State, it has been submitted that the petitioners are named in the F.I.R/ complaint case.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioners 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M.-I, Gopalganj, in connection with Mohammadpur P.S. Case No. 154/2015, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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