Ajeet Singh @ Ajeet Kumar And ANR v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.62288 of 2018 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -52 Year- 2017 Thana -PASRAHA District- KHAGARIA ======================================================

1. Ajeet Singh @ Ajeet Kumar.

2. Sujeet Singh alias Sujeet Kumar. Both sons of Keshav Singh, R/VMahaddipur, P.S. Pasraha, District-Khagaria. .... .... Petitioners

Versus

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

For the Petitioners : Mr. Praveen Kumar Agrawal, Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Smt Renu Kumari, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH ORAL ORDER 05-10-2018 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 498(A), 304(B) and 201 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 been made accused in the present case due to mistake of fact. The petitioners are

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.62288 of 2018 (2) dt.05-10-2018 2/2 brothers-in-law (Bhaisur) of the deceased. They are separate in mess and property from the husband of the deceased. They have got no concern with the alleged occurrence. The husband of the deceased has already been acquitted vide order dated 23.11.2017 passed by learned Additional District and Sessions Judge, F.T.C.- II, Khagaria in Sessions Trial No. 344 of 2017 vide Annexure-3 to the present application.

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 C.J.M. Khagaria, in connection with Pasraha P.S. Case No. 52 of 2017, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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