Ashok Mahto v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.12291 of 2016 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -162 Year- 2015 Thana -KOTWA DistrictEASTCHAMPARAN(MOTIHARI) ====================================================== Ashok Mahto S/o Mundrika Mahto @ Munrika Mahto, Resident of VillageMachharganwa, P.S.- Kotwa, District- East Champaran at Motihari. .... .... Petitioner

Versus

The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner : Mr. Binay Kumar, Advocate.

For the Opposite Party : Ms. Indu Bala Pandey(App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 24-06-2016 Heard both sides.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in Kotwa P.S. Case No. 162 of 2015 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304(B), 201 and 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code. The informant alleged that his younger sister was married to Ashok Mahto the petitioner on 15.05.2015. The informant got information that on 07.08.2015 his sister was strangulated to death after being assaulted by her in-laws and her dead body was thrown into a canal.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the informant did not name the petitioner as assailant of the deceased. The case has been compromised.

Considering the facts aforesaid and the fact that, of

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12291 of 2016 (4) dt.24-06-2016 2/2 course, the petitioner is not named, but from perusal of the records it appears that the petitioner is husband and his wife was done to death within three months of her marriage and her dead body was thrown into canal, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner above named on anticipatory bail in Kotwa P.S. Case No. 162 of 2015, pending in the court of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate X, East Champaran at Motihari. Accordingly, the same is rejected.

(Prabhat Kumar Jha, J.) KKSINHA/- U T