Patna High CourtCR. MISC./42382/2023bail granted

Ranjeet Das v. The State Of Bihar

2023-08-08Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.42382 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-97 Year-2022 Thana- MUSAHARI District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== RANJEET DAS S/O-VIJAY DAS R/O VILLAGE- SABHAPUR, P.S.- MUSHAHRI, DISTRICT- MUZAFFARPUR ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ganesh Prasad Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ramchandra Sahni, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 08-08-2023

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

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 302 and 201/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.

4. The informant alleges that her daughter was married to Shankar Das and from the wedlock three children were born, further alleges that her daughter was tortured and on 15.04.2022 she was killed by hanging.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that petitioner is not related to the husband of the deceased and is a co-villager. It is next submitted that from

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.42382 of 2023(2) dt.08-08-2023 2/2 perusal of the allegation as alleged in the FIR, it would manifest that it is not a case under Section 304(B) of the Indian Penal Code rather it is a case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code which amply demonstrates that the marriage was more than seven years old. It is also submitted that no specific allegation is alleged against the petitioner.

6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

7. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his 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/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Mushahri P.S. Case No. 97 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T