Fekan Mahto v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.57861 of 2015 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -50 Year- 2015 Thana -BATHNAHA District- SITAMARHI ====================================================== Fekan Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Pushpendra Kumar Singh, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Iftekhar Mahmood(App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 11-01-2016 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 307 and 498A/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The basic accusation is of causing burn injury to the daughter of the informant after four years of the marriage for nonfulfillment of the dowry demand, though, the victim subsequently succumbed to the injuries.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that till date Section 304B IPC has not been added and the postmortem report is also not available. The informant has subsequently retracted from his initial version.

Let the learned court below consider the prayer for

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.57861 of 2015 (2) dt.11-01-2016 2/2 regular bail of the petitioner if he surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Bathnaha P.S. Case No. 50 of 2015 pending in the court of learned CJM, Sitamarhi. Accordingly, the application is disposed of.

(Dinesh Kumar Singh, J) Amrendra/- U T