Pankaj Kumar Jha v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.64054 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-20 Year-2024 Thana- COMPLAINT CASE District- Banka ====================================================== 1.

Pankaj Kumar Jha S/o- Late Shambhunath Jha Village- Chanda, Police Station- Thakur Gangati, District- Godda, Jharkhand 2.

Punam Devi W/o- Pankaj Kumar Jha Village- Chanda, Police StationThakur Gangati, District- Godda, Jharkhand ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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The State of Bihar 2.

Pallabi Mishra W/o- Anand Saurav Jha @ Anand Sourav Jha, D/o- Pramod Mishra Village- Orhara Ps- Rajoun Dist- Banka ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Ajay Mukherjee For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs.Pushpa Sinha ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 16-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a complaint case punishable for the offence under Sections 498(A), 404, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act

3. Allegation against petitioners is of commission of torture and cruelty to the complainant for dowry.

4. Petitioner no. 1 is father-in-law and petitioner no. 2 is mother-in-law of the complainant. Thrust of the accusation is against husband of the complainant. Petitioners are separate in

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64054 of 2025(2) dt.16-09-2025 2/2 mess and property and have got no concern with the family affairs of complainant and her husband.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes 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, Banka / concerned Court in connection with Complaint Case No. 20 of 2024, subject to condition as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure / Section 482 of the B.N.S.S. (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) anay U T