Gulabi Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.45546 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-102 Year-2025 Thana- GAURICHAK District- Patna ====================================================== Gulabi Devi, aged about 80 years, W/o Late Ballam Yadav, resident of Village- Pinjara, PS- Melawar, District- Jehanabad ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Rakesh Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Amitesh Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 16-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Gaurichak PS Case No.102 of 2025 dated 28.02.2025, instituted under Sections 103(1), 238(a), 3(5), 61(2)(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 27 of the Arms Act.
3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that marriage of the daughter of the informant was performed with the son of the petitioner about twelve years ago. The informant got information that his daughter has been killed and her dead body has been thrown in Khaira of Gaurichak. It is alleged that inlaws were torturing her daughter right from the date of marriage and they were also threatening that they would kill her and perform second marriage of her husband.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45546 of 2025(3) dt.16-10-2025 2/2 petitioner is the mother-in-law of the deceased and marriage was performed in the year 2008. The deceased was blessed with one son and two daughters out of the wedlock. It is further submitted that the deceased was living separately from the petitioner. Further submission is that the petitioner is an old lady aged about 80 years having no concern with day to day affairs of the deceased and her husband. She has been implicated only because she is the mother-in-law. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent.
5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.
6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned ACJM-II, Patna City, Patna, in Gaurichak PS Case No.102 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
7. The application stands allowed.
(Khatim Reza, J) J. Alam/- U T