Patna High CourtCR. MISC./6444/2017dismissed

.Shankar Ram v. The State Of Bihar

2017-03-27Mr. Justice Sanjay Priya2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.6444 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -247 Year- 2016 Thana -KISHANGANJ District- KISANGANJ ====================================================== Shankar Ram, S/o Bindeshwar Ram, resident of Village- Satkhamar, P.S. & District- Kishanganj.

.... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar.

.... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Diwakar Sinha, Advocate. For the Opposite Party/s : Md. Sufiyan, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY PRIYA ORAL ORDER 27-03-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner seeks bail in Kishanganj P.S. Case 247 of 2016 instituted for the offence under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged in the written report that the petitioner was married with the sister of the informant about one year back. He always used to give pressure to the father of the informant for demand of dowry and committed physical and mental torture with the sister of the informant for non-fulfillment of aforesaid demand. The father of the informant has given tractor and also house to the petitioner to earn his livelihood and stay in the house, but after death of the father of the informant, the petitioner drove the younger sister of the informant Gunja Devi from the

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6444 of 2017 (3) dt.27-03-2017 2/2 house. It is further alleged that on 12.6.2016 the petitioner burnt the sister of the informant with intention to kill and did not give any information about the occurrence. The informant on getting information went to Kishanganj Medical College where the deceased in presence of the other sisters of the informant told that the petitioner has caused burn injury to her. Case diary has been received wherein the doctor has found 85 per cent burn injury on the person of the deceased.

Keeping in view the specific allegation against the petitioner and 85 per cent burn injury found on the person of the deceased and also the statement made by the deceased herself as mentioned in the written report levelling specific allegation against the petitioner of causing burn injury to her, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner at this stage. The prayer for bail of the petitioner stands rejected. The petitioner is given liberty to renew his prayer for bail after nine months if no substantive progress is made in the trial.

(Sanjay Priya, J) S.Ali/- U T