Ram Pravesh Sharma v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.52777 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-64 Year-2023 Thana- BAIRIYA District- West Champaran ====================================================== RAM PRAVESH SHARMA S/O LATE HARI SHANKAR THAKUR @ LATE HARI SHANKAR SHARMA R/O VILLAGE- MALAHI TOLA NAHAR CHOWK, P.S- BAIRIYA, DISTT.- WEST CHAMPARAN. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Brij Kishor Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Raj Ballabh Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 08-08-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State.

2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in connection with Bairiya P.S. Case No. 64 of 2023 dated11.03.2023 registered for the offence/s punishable u/ss 302, 304B, 328, 201 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and the co-accused persons are alleged to have killed the informant's sister due to non-fulfillment of demand of Rs. one lakh and a motorcycle as dowry after administering poison to her.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.52777 of 2024(2) dt.08-08-2024 2/2 this case. The petitioner is the husband of the deceased. The petitioner neither demanded any dowry nor tortured the deceased. There is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioner. The petitioner has clean antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is in custody since 19.03.2024.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner by submitting that the petitioner and the co-accused persons used to torture the informant's sister mentally and physically and killed her due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the heinous nature of allegation against the petitioner, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner stands rejected.

7. Learned trial court is directed to expedite the trial and conclude the same at the earliest.

(Chandra Prakash Singh, J) guddukr/- U T