Zahida Khatoon v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.60698 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-12 Year-2025 Thana- BARURAJ District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== 1.
Zahida Khatoon W/o- Md. Alamuddin Resident of Village- Bara Baijnath PS- Baruraj Dist- Muzaffarpur 2.
Md. Sakeel S/o- Md. Hafiz @ Md. Almuddin Resident of Village- Bara Baijnath PS- Baruraj Dist- Muzaffarpur 3.
Md. Almuddin @ Alamuddin S/o- Late Bhola Mian Resident of VillageBara Baijnath PS- Baruraj Dist- Muzaffarpur 4.
Md. Hafiz S/o- Md. Bhola Mian @ Late Bhola Miya Resident of VillageBara Baijnath PS- Baruraj Dist- Muzaffarpur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Sheo Kumar Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Nand Kumar, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 15-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. Petitioners apprehend arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 103, 61(2), 238, 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
3. Prosecution case, in brief, is that these petitioners, along with one other F.I.R. named accused person, killed the daughter of informant by strangulating her and secretly buried the dead body in a graveyard with a view to disappear the evidence.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.60698 of 2025(2) dt.15-09-2025 2/2 petitioners are innocent and have committed no offence. Petitioners are in-laws of the deceased and they are simply victims of over-implications. Allegation against petitioners is general and omnibus. Petitioners are separate in mess and property and they are not concerned with family affairs of the deceased. Moreover, thrust of accusation is against husband of the deceased who is already in custody since 13.02.2025.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State vehemently opposed the bail application.
6. Considering the fact that husband of the deceased is already in custody, this anticipatory bail is allowed and it is ordered that let the above named petitioners in the event of their arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of eight weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, (East), Muzaffarpur in connection with Baruraj P. S. Case No. 12 of 2025, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Navya/- U T