Rajkali Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.61655 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-164 Year-2022 Thana- BAJPATTI District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== 1.

RAJKALI DEVI Wife of Laxman Paswan Resident of village - Bajpatti, Got Ward No.- 4, P.S.- Bajpatti, District - Sitamarhi 2.

Laxman Paswan Son of Late Deosharan Paswan Resident of village - Bajpatti, Got Ward No.- 4, P.S.- Bajpatti, District - Sitamarhi ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Virendra Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs.Renu Kumari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 10-01-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.

The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 304(B) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code pending in the learned court below. As per the F.I.R., Raju Paswan and his family members demanded dowry of Rs.1,00,000/- and one motorcycle and gold as further dowry which the informant could not fulfill due to poverty. Thereafter all the accused persons including the petitioners started subjecting informant's daughter to cruelty and torture and ultimately on the date of occurrence on 05.06.2022 they committed murder of his daughter by pressing her neck.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.61655 of 2022(2) dt.10-01-2023 2/2 Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have been falsely implicated in this case. He further submits that there is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners. He submits that petitioners are in laws of the deceased and husband of the deceased is already in judicial custody. He further submits that petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as stated in para-3 of the bail application. Learned APP for the State opposes for prayer for bail.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances and the fact that there is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners, let the petitioners, named above, in the event of their 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.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned Court below, where the case is pending/Successor court, in connection with Bajpatti P.S. Case No.164/2022, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) ajay/- U T