Biltu Tatma v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.53983 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-478 Year-2023 Thana- JOKIHAT District- Araria ====================================================== 1.

Biltu Tatma SON OF MAHABIR TATMA VILLAGE- FULPUR, WARD NO. 12, PS- MAHALGAON (JOKIHAT),DIST- ARARIA 2.

ANITA DEVI WIFE OF SUDAMA TATMA VILLAGE- FULPUR, WARD NO. 12, PS- MAHALGAON (JOKIHAT),DIST- ARARIA 3.

MEENA DEVI WIFE OF VIKRAM TATMA VILLAGE- FULPUR, WARD NO. 12, PS- MAHALGAON (JOKIHAT),DIST- ARARIA 4.

MAHABIR TATMA SON OF LATE MANGLU TATMA VILLAGEFULPUR, WARD NO. 12, PS- MAHALGAON (JOKIHAT),DISTARARIA 5.

MAROWA DEVI @ MARO DEVI WIFE OF MAHABIR TATMA VILLAGE- FULPUR, WARD NO. 12, PS- MAHALGAON (JOKIHAT),DIST- ARARIA ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Mukesh Kumar Rana, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Prem Kumar Jha, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 09-08-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Jokihat P.S. Case No. 478 of 2023 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. As per prosecution case, petitioners and other are said to have committed murder of informant's daughter by strangulating her due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.53983 of 2024(2) dt.09-08-2024 2/3

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no. 1 is father-in-law, petitioner nos. 2 and 3 are gotni, petitioner no. 4 is grant mother-in-law and petitioner no. 5 is grand mother-in-law of the deceased. He further submits that petitioners have falsely been implicated in the present case and they are living separately from the deceased family. Petitioners have no say in the family affairs of the deceased. Petitioners bear no criminal antecedent.

5. The learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, keeping in view clean antecedent of petitioners, petitioners having no say in the family affairs of the deceased, argument advanced on behalf of both sides and also taking into consideration the material available on record, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in connection with Jokihat P.S. Case No. 478 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.53983 of 2024(2) dt.09-08-2024 3/3 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Alok Kumar Pandey, J) alok/- U T