Sanju Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.52531 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-331 Year-2020 Thana- BIBHUTIPUR District- Samastipur ====================================================== 1.
Sanju Devi Wife Of Sonelal Sahni Resident Of Village- Phulwariya, PsBibhutipur, Dist- Samastipur 2.
Sonelal Sahni Son Of Nanhki Sahni Resident Of Village- Phulwariya, PsBibhutipur, Dist- Samastipur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Jitendra Narain Sinha For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Abhay Kumar Roy ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 30-08-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304B and 201 of the Indian Penal Code pending in the learned court below.
3. As per the prosecution case, petitioners along with other co-accused persons are said to have killed the sister of the informant due to non-fulfillment of the demand of dowry and also hided her dead body.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have been falsely implicated in this case. He further submits that petitioners have been dragged in this case just because they have the relation of brother in law and sister in law of husband of the deceased. He submits that
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.52531 of 2023(2) dt.30-08-2023 2/2 the deceased died due to illness that was duly informed to the prosecution party and this fact would be born out from the FIR itself. He further submits that similarly situated other coaccused persons have already been granted bail by a bench of this Court vide order dated 23.08.2023 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 53872/2023. He further submits that petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as stated in para-3 of the bail application.
5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioners, named above, in the event of their arrest/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.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned Court below, where the case is pending/Successor court, in connection with Bibhutipur P.S. Case No. 331/2020, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) ajay/- U T