Raushan Kumar @ Chetan Ji v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.49210 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-741 Year-2024 Thana- MUZAFFARPUR SADAR DistrictMuzaffarpur ====================================================== 1.

Raushan Kumar @ Chetan Ji Son Of Ram Kishore Choudhary Resident Of Patahi Jagamnath, Patahi, P.S.- Sadar, Distt.- Muzaffarpur, Bihar-843113 2.

Ritu Kumari Shukla Wife Of Raushan Kumar @ Chetan Ji Resident Of Patahi Jagamnath, Patahi, P.S.- Sadar, Distt.- Muzaffarpur, Bihar-843113 ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ramakant Sharma, Sr. Advocate Mr. Shashwat Pratyush, Advocate Mr. Himanshu Shekhar Jha, Advocate Mr. Rahul Singh, Advocate For the State :

Mr. Shantanu Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NAWNEET KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 22-08-2025 Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Sadar Muzaffarpur P.S. Case No. 741 of 2024, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 80, 103(1), 3(5) of the BNS, 2023.

3. As per the prosecution story, the deceased got married to co-accused, Chandan Kumar. Husband Chandan Kumar used to taunt the deceased on her educational qualification and tortured her. All the accused persons started

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.49210 of 2025(2) dt.22-08-2025 2/3 demanding dowry of Rs. 5,00,000/-. It is further alleged that the daughter of the informant (the deceased) was strangulated to death.

4. Learned senior counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the petitioners are innocent and they have falsely been implicated in the present case. He further submits that the petitioners are brother-in-law (devar) and sister-in-law (devrani) of the deceased having no concern with day-to-day affairs of the couple. It is further submitted that the mother-in-law of the deceased has been granted privilege of anticipatory bail by a coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 12.05.2025 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 13531 of 2025 and father-in-law of the deceased was petitioner no. 2 in Cr. Misc. No. 13531 of 2025 whose prayer for anticipatory bail was dismissed as withdrawn because he was murdered. The petitioners are persons of clean antecedent.

5. Learned APP for the State, on the other hand, has vehemently opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioners.

6. Considering the above-mentioned facts and circumstances and clean antecedent of the petitioners, let the petitioners, in the event of their arrest or surrender within four weeks before the learned court below, be released on

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.49210 of 2025(2) dt.22-08-2025 3/3 anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur, Bihar in connection with Sadar Muzaffarpur P.S. Case No. 741 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C/ 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023.

(Nawneet Kumar Pandey, J) priyanka/- U T