Naresh Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32814 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-39 Year-2025 Thana- RAHUI District- Nalanda ====================================================== 1.

Naresh Paswan S/O Late Ramswaroop Paswan R/O Village- Banbaripur Mora, P.S- Rahui (Wena), Distt.- Nalanda.

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Kaushalya Devi W/O Naresh Paswan R/O Village- Banbaripur Mora, P.SRahui (Wena), Distt.- Nalanda. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Pramod Kumar Sinha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Satya Nand Shukla, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 21-05-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Rahui P.S. Case No.39 of 2025 instituted under Sections 85, 80 and 3(5) of B.N.S.

3. As per prosecution case, it is alleged that the younger sister of the informant was subjected to torture by her husband and in-laws due to non-fulfillment of additional demand of dowry and thereafter she was found dead in her matrimonial house.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case. Petitioner no.1 is father-in-law and petitioner no.2 is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.32814 of 2025(3) dt.21-05-2025 2/2 mother-in-law of the deceased. They are old persons suffering from various types of diseases. Petitioners never demanded any type of dowry. The allegations against the petitioners are general in nature. The husband of the deceased, namely, Manish Kumar is already in judicial custody. Petitioners have no concern with the matrimonial affairs of the victim and her husband. Petitioners have no criminal antecedent and they undertake to cooperate in the investigation and trial.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.

6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioners be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Rahui P.S. Case No.39 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) Harish/- U T