Suman Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.37068 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-3083 Year-2022 Thana- SARAN COMPLAINT CASE DistrictSaran ====================================================== 1.

Suman Devi Wife of Raj Kumar Singh Resident of Mohalla - Rajiv Nagar, Road No. 23, P.S.- Rajiv Nagar, District - Patna. 2.

Baijanti Devi Wife of Vidya Rai Resident of Mohalla - Nayagaon (Mahuaatar), P.S.- Nayagaon, District - Saran. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ranjit Kumar Thakur For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Rajendra Nath Jha ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-06-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120(B), 323, 341, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and are women and in sum and substance the informant alleges that the land belonging to her was sold by the petitioner no.2. It is next submitted that police after threadbare investigation came to a considered conclusion that dispute was civil in nature and no criminality was involved, as such submitted final form but based

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37068 of 2026(2) dt.17-06-2026 2/2 on protest petition filed by the complainant, the learned trial court took cognizance. It is thus submitted that when one investigating agency after threadbare investigation came to a considered conclusion that petitioners are innocent, whether it would be prudent for the court to send the petitioners to jail based on an order of cognizance, which came to be taken, based on a protest petition.

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

5. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Complaint Case No.3083 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T