Ramjanam Yadav v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.58899 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-283 Year-2024 Thana- SARMERA District- Nalanda ====================================================== 1.
Ramjanam Yadav S/O Pachu Yadav R/O Vill.- Husaina, P.S.-Sarmera, Dist.- Nalanda 2.
Kari Devi W/O Ramjanam Yadav R/O Vill.- Husaina, P.S.-Sarmera, Dist.- Nalanda ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Raj Kishor Prasad For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Surendra Prasad Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-09-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 80(2), 3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that his daughter was married to Ravish on 10.07.2024, after marriage the accused persons including the petitioners were demanding dowry of Rs.2 lacs and a motorcycle, on account of non-fulfillment of the demand, the victim was tortured, as such the informant brought the victim back to her
2/4 parental home, but on persuasion of her husband, the victim went back to her matrimonial home, further on 17.12.2024, the informant receiving an information that his daughter has been strangulated to death, accordingly, he reached the place of occurrence and informed the police and the dead body was sent for postmortem.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners have been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that informant is not an eyewitness to the occurrence. It is also submitted that allegation of demand of dowry and torture is general and omnibus in nature. It is further submitted that had the petitioners been torturing the victim for dowry, in that event, the informant would not have allowed the victim to go back to her matrimonial home. It is further submitted that whenever any dispute arises in between the husband and the wife and an occurrence of the nature as alleged takes place, the entire family members are implicated in a mechanical manner with general and omnibus allegation. It is next submitted that had the petitioners been involved in the occurrence then efforts would have been made to dispose of the dead body with a view to conceal evidence but then the dead body was lying in the house
3/4 and the same was sent for postmortem. It is next submitted that the postmortem report recorded asphyxia due to hanging. It is submitted that the victim committed suicide on account of dispute with her husband and the petitioners being father-in-law and mother-in-law came to be implicated. It is next submitted that no doubt the victim died within seven years of marriage but then all deaths are not dowry death. It is further submitted that petitioners will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation to prove their innocence.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or 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.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Sarmera P.S. Case No.283/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
7. However, it is made clear that in the event if the
4/4 Investigating Officer of the case files an application before the learned trial court bringing to its notice that the petitioners despite giving assurance to this court are not co-operating in the investigation in that event the learned trial court shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioners. (Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T