Patna High CourtCR. MISC./63148/2024bail rejected

Sadhu Prasad @ Sadhu Mahto v. The State Of Bihar

2024-09-24Mr. Justice Chandra Prakash Singh2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.63148 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-283 Year-2010 Thana- NAUBATPUR District- Patna ====================================================== Sadhu Prasad @ Sadhu Mahto Son of Arbind Mahato Resident of VilllageHemanchak, P.S.- Naubatpur, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Nawnit Kumar Tiwary, Adv For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tiwary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 24-09-2024 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 Naubatpur P.S. Case No. 283 of 2010 dated 02.11.2010 registered for the offence punishable u/ss 304B, 201 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and the co-accused person are alleged to have tortured the informant's daughter mentally and physically due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry. On 01.10.2010, the informant went to the petitioner's house and came to know that the petitioner and the co-accused person, namely, Arvind Mahto have committed murder of her daughter for the sake of dowry and her dead body was disappeared by the accused persons.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.63148 of 2024(2) dt.24-09-2024 2/2

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. The petitioner is the husband of the deceased. The petitioner neither demanded any dowry nor tortured the deceased. The petitioner has clean antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is in custody since 28.03.2024.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner by submitting that the petitioner is the husband of the deceased who committed murder of the informant' daughter 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, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner and the same is rejected in connection with Naubatpur P.S. Case No. 283 of 2010 pending in the court of learned Additional Sessions Judge-VI, Danapur.

7. The application stands rejected.

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