Rajesh Ram v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31067 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-113 Year-2025 Thana- NAUTAN District- West Champaran ====================================================== Rajesh Ram S/o Madan Ram R/o vill - Maduwaha, P.S.- Nautan, Distt.- West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the State :
Mr. Vinod Shanker Modi, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 13-08-2025 Heard Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Pandey, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Vinod Shanker Modi, learned APP for the State.
2. Petitioner seeks regular bail in connection with Nautan P.S. Case No. 113 of 2025, dated 10.03.2025, registered for the offence punishable under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
3. The main submissions advanced by petitioner's counsel are that the instant matter relates to death of petitioner's wife and as per the prosecution story, this petitioner throttled his wife to death but the said allegation is completely false as the deceased committed suicide by hanging on account of being rebuked by this petitioner due to having affair with one Akash Kumar, and in this regard, the police also investigated and found
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31067 of 2025(3) dt.13-08-2025 2/3 substance. In support of these submissions, learned counsel has referred the paragraph nos. 3, 43, 44 and 45 of the case diary containing the statements of police officer and co-villagers of the deceased and the fact of committing suicide by the deceased gets support from the postmortem report of the deceased in which her cause of death has been opined as Asphyxia as a result of hanging and no any mark of struggle or injury was found on the body of the deceased which falsifies the allegation of strangulation or throttling. It is lastly submitted that the petitioner has been languishing in jail since 17.03.2025 and against him, the investigation has been completed.
4. Learned APP appearing for the State has opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner.
5. Considering the aforesaid submissions and mainly the statements of the witnesses as referred above and also the cause of death of the deceased mentioned in her postmortem report according to which, cause of death of the deceased was asphyxia as a result of hanging and also coupled with petitioner's custody period and completion of investigation against him, this Court is inclined to release him on bail. Accordingly, let the petitioner named-above be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31067 of 2025(3) dt.13-08-2025 3/3 Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the concerned Court in connection with Nautan P.S. Case No. 113 of 2025.
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