Sanjay Goswami @ Sanjay Kumar v. State Of Bihar And ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.56700 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -170 Year- 2017 Thana -AKBARPUR District- NAWADA ====================================================== Sanjay Goswami @ Sanjay Kumar, Son of Ramswaroop Goswami, Resident of Village-Rajapur Indoul, P.S. Akbarpur, District-Nawada. .... .... Petitioner

Versus

1. The State of Bihar

2. Meera Kusum, Wife of Sanjay Goswami, D/o Late Shantanu Goswami Resident of Village-Chakand bazar, P.S. Gandauti, District-Gaya. .... .... Opposite Parties ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner : Mr. Deepak Kumar, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Uma Shankar Prasad Singh, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH ORAL ORDER 27-11-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2.

The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case for the offence registered under Sections 323, 498(A)/34 of the IPC and 3⁄4 of the D.P. Act.

The prosecution story, in brief, is that the accused persons including the petitioner tortured the victim due to nonfulfillment of demand of dowry. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case due to petty family dispute. There is no allegation of

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.56700 of 2017 (2) dt.27-11-2017 2/2 tampering with the witnesses alleged against the petitioner. Earlier also a similar complaint case was instituted by the victim against the petitioner and others. The case is triable by the Magistrate. The petitioner has further relied upon the judgment of this Court in the case of Md. Naimul Haque Ansari @ Naimul Haque Ansari & Ors. Vs. The State of Bihar, reported in 2006(3) PLJR 182. On behalf of the learned counsels for the State and opposite party no. 2, it has been submitted that the petitioner is named in the F.I.R/ complaint case.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioner above named, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M.-1, Nawada, in connection with Akbarpur P.S. Case No. 170/2017, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

U.K./- (Sudhir Singh, J) U T