Munna Sah @ Munna Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.59878 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-255 Year-2025 Thana- BAIRIYA District- West Champaran ====================================================== 1.
Munna Sah @ Munna Kumar S/o- Late Nand Kishore Sah Village- Hat Saraiya Ps- Bairiya Dist- West Champaran 2.
Usha Devi W/o- Late Nand Kishore Sah Village- Hat Saraiya Ps- Bairiya Dist- West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Ajay Kumar Thakur Mrs. Vaishnavi Singh Mr. Ritwik Thakur For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Sanjay Kumar Sharma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel for the informant.
2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a complaint case punishable for the offence under Sections 80(2), 3(5) of B.N.S., 2023.
3. As per F.I.R., sister of the informant was married with co-accused Sandeep Kumar on 25.04.2025 and it is alleged that after the marriage, she was subjected to cruelty and harassment by all the accused persons for dowry and lastly on 27.06.2025, the accused persons killed informant's daughter by
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.59878 of 2025(2) dt.04-09-2025 2/3 throttling.
4. Petitioner no. 1 is elder brother-in-law and petitioner no. 2 is mother-in-law of the deceased. There is general and omnibus allegation. As a matter of fact, the deceased committed suicide, as she was not satisfied with the alleged marriage. Thrust of the accusation is against husband of the deceased, who is already in custody since 01.07.2025 Petitioners are separate in mess and property and have got no concern with the family affairs of deceased and her husband. In the post-mortem report, no external injury has been found on the person of deceased and cause of death has been opined to be Asphyxia, as a result of hanging.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel for the informant opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of petitioners.
6. However, considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the above named petitioners, in the event of arrest/surrender within a period of eight weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran / concerned Court in connection with Bairiya P.S.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.59878 of 2025(2) dt.04-09-2025 3/3 Case No. 255 of 2025, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., 2023.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) anay U T