Most. Gayatri v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.43055 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-899 Year-2022 Thana- MAJHAULIA District- West Champaran ====================================================== MOST. GAYATRI, Wife of Late Nakchhed Thakur Resident of village - Ramnagar Bankat, Ward No.- 07, P.S.- Majhaulia, District - West Champaran. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Brij Kishor Mishra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Pranav Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 25-07-2023 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to remove defect (s), as pointed out by the office, if any, within a period of four weeks on resumption of physical mode.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State.

3. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in connection with Majhaulia P.S. Case No. 899 of 2022 dated 17.11.2022 registered for the offences punishable u/ss 304B, 302, 201 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

4. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and the co-accused persons are alleged to have committed murder of the informant's daughter due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry and her dead body was disappeared.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.43055 of 2023(2) dt.25-07-2023 2/2

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. There is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioner. It is further submitted that the petitioner neither demanded any dowry nor tortured the deceased. The petitioner has clean antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is the mother-in-law of the deceased and she is in custody since 17.01.2023.

6. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner.

7. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the period of custody, the petitioner abovenamed, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court concerned, Bettiah, Dist- West Champaran in connection with Majhaulia P.S. Case No. 899 of 2022.

8. The application stands allowed.

(Chandra Prakash Singh, J) Gautam/- U T