Panama Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.45694 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-130 Year-2022 Thana- PARWALPUR District- Nalanda ====================================================== 1.

Panama Devi Wife of Surendra Das @ Surendra Ram D/O Krishna Ravidas Resident of Vill- Kirtipur, P.S.- Parawalpur, District- Nalnda. 2.

Surendra Das @ Surendra Ram Son of Raghuni Mochi Resident of VillKirtipur, P.S.- Parawalpur, District- Nalnda. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar 2.

Punam Kumari Wife of Pawan Kumar, Daughter of Surendra Das Resident of Vill- Kirtipur, P.S. -Parawalpur, District- Nalanda, At present Residing at Kachhiyawan, P.S.- Nagarnausa, District- Nalanda at Biharsharif 3.

Surendra Das Son of Late Chhotan Ravidas Resident at Kachhiyawan, P.S.- Nagarnausa, District- Nalanda at Biharsharif. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ravi Shanker Pankaj, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Upendra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 06-08-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Parawalpur P.S. Case No. 130 of 2022 registered under Sections 341, 323, 504, 506, 498A and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. As per the prosecution case, allegation against these petitioners is of matrimonial cruelty and demand of dowry.

4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submits that petitioners are innocent and have falsely been

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45694 of 2024(2) dt.06-08-2024 2/2 implicated in the present case. Further submission is that petitioners are mother-in-law and father-in-law of the opposite party no. 2 respectively. Petitioners have never tortured informant's daughter nor demanded any dowry. Thrust of accusation is against the husband of opposite party no. 2. Petitioners have got no criminal antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioners be released on bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bailbonds of Rs. 10,000 (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-III, Hilsa, Nalanda in connection with Parawalpur P.S. Case No. 130 of 2022 corresponding to G.R. No. 1493 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) utkarsh/- U T