Rajuli Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.63343 of 2021 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-256 Year-2021 Thana- BHORE District- Gopalganj ====================================================== 1.

RAJULI DEVI Wife of Harishanker Singh Resident of Village- Kushaha, P.S.- Bhorey, District- Gopalganj.

2.

Puja Kumari Daughter of Harishanker Singh Resident of Village- Kushaha, P.S.- Bhorey, District- Gopalganj.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Suresh Prasad Bhakta, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ram Sevak Choudhary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 13-05-2022 Heard learned counsel for the parties through video conferencing.

The petitioners have preferred this application for grant of regular bail in a case registered under sections 304B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

As per the prosecution case, the daughter of the informant was married to Vishwakarma Singh. Soon after the marriage, all the accused persons including the two petitioners herein started to torture the informant's daughter for non fulfillment of demand of dowry and ultimately she was strangulated to death.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are the mother-in-law and the unmarried sister-in-law (nanad) of the deceased. They have been falsely implicated in the case. The allegations are general and omnibus in nature. From the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.63343 of 2021(3) dt.13-05-2022 2/2 order rejecting bail of the petitioners it would transpire that the husband of the deceased is in custody. The petitioners are in custody since 13.6.2021 and have no criminal antecedent. The application for bail is opposed by learned APP for the State who submits that the cause of death in the postmortem examination report is asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the relationship of the two petitioners who are ladies, the husband of the deceased being in custody, the petitioners being in custody for 11 months and chargesheet having been submitted in the case, both the petitioners are directed to be enlarged on bail in connection with Bhorey P.S. Case no. 256 of 2021 on each of them furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj. (Partha Sarthy, J) Spd/- U T