Lalan Patel @ Lalan Raut v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.40198 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-317 Year-2025 Thana- SIKARPUR District- West Champaran ====================================================== 1.
Lalan Patel @ Lalan Raut Son of Late Dhro Raut Resident of Upadhyay Tola, P.S.- Shikarpur, Kehuniya, Bettiah, West Champaran 2.
Lalsa Devi Wife of Laln Patel Resident of Upadhyay Tola, P.S.- Shikarpur, Kehuniya, Bettiah, West Champaran 3.
Karan Patel @ Karan Kumar Son of Lalan Patel @ Lalan Raut Resident of Upadhyay Tola, P.S.- Shikarpur, Kehuniya, Bettiah, West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Dhananjay Kumar, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Md. Anzarul Haque Sahara, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 03-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. Petitioners are apprehending arrest in connection with Shikarpur P.S. Case No. 317 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 80 and 3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023.
3. As per prosecution case, petitioners and others are said to have concertedly committed murder of informant's daughter due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no. 1 is father-in-law, petitioner no. 2 is mother-in-law
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.40198 of 2025(3) dt.03-09-2025 2/3 and petitioner no. 3 is brother-in-law of the deceased. It is submitted that petitioners are innocent and have committed no offence as alleged in the first information report and they have been falsely implicated in this case merely because they are relatives of the husband of the deceased. Petitioners are living separately at Bettiah from the deceased and her husband and they have nothing to do with the affairs of the deceased and her husband. It is submitted that informant and her family members never made any complaint regarding demand of dowry against the petitioners during lifetime of the deceased. The allegations levelled in the first information report are general and omnibus in nature. In the light of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, no offence is made out against the petitioners as alleged in the first information report. It is lastly submitted that husband of the deceased has surrendered before the concerned court and he is in judicial custody. Petitioners bear clean antecedent.
5. The learned A.P.P. for the State vehemently opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.
6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, keeping in view clean antecedent of petitioners, petitioners have no say in the affairs of the deceased and her husband,
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.40198 of 2025(3) dt.03-09-2025 3/3 argument advanced on behalf of both sides and also taking into consideration the material available on record, the petitioners, above named, in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, West Champaran at Bettiah in connection with Shikarpur P.S. Case No. 317 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
7. The application stands allowed.
(Alok Kumar Pandey, J) mcverma/- U T