Bittu @ Bittu Kumar @ Ajit Kumar Goyal v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.55610 of 2021 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-316 Year-2020 Thana- PATNA COMPLAINT CASE DistrictPatna ====================================================== BITTU @ BITTU KUMAR @ AJIT KUMAR GOYAL S/o ARBIND KUMAR GUPTA R/o VILLAGE-BHADWAR, P.S-CHANDI , DISTRICTBHOJPUR AT ARA. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Prabhat Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Vinod Shanker Modi ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 09-05-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498A, 323, 504 & 354 of the Indian Penal Code.

Petitioner along with other co-accused is said to have tortured and assaulted the complainant on non fulfillment of demand of dowry.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is an innocent person and has committed no offence. Petitioner has neither made any dowry demand nor drove her out of her matrimonial home nor

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.55610 of 2021(2) dt.09-05-2022 2/2 tormented her over the demand of dowry. As a matter of fact, petitioner is the 'Devar' of the complainant/opposite party no.2 and he has no concern with the day to day affair of opposite party no.2 or her husband. No specific over act has been attributed against the petitioner. It is further submitted that the husband of opposite party no.2 has already been enlarged on bail by a coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 22.10.2021 passed in Cr. Misc. No.51560 of 2021. Petitioner has no criminal antecedent.

In that view of the matter, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five 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 Complaint Case No.316 (C) of 2020, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) Trivedi/- U T