Jeevachi Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.30405 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -33 Year- 2017 Thana -KHANPUR District- SAMASTIPUR ======================================================

1. Jeevachi Devi Wife of late Damodar Ishwar, Resident of Village-Sadipur Ghat, P.S. Khanpur, District-Samastipur .... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Nilesh Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Smt. Anita Kumari Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH ORAL ORDER 13-07-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the informant. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered under Sections 498(A), 364(A) and 365 of the Indian Penal Code.

Allegation against the petitioner is of committing torture upon the victim due to non-fulfilment of demand of dowry. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent. There is no allegation of tampering of witnesses alleged against the petitioner. The petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case. The petitioner is the mother-in-law of the victim. She is separate in mess and property from the husband of the victim.

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30405 of 2017 (2) dt.13-07-2017 2/2 On behalf of the State and learned counsel for the informant, it is submitted that the petitioner is named in the F.I.R. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioner, above named, in the event of 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.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate III, Samastipur in connection with Khanpur P.S. case No.33 of 2017, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

(Sudhir Singh, J) Narendra/- U T