Pankaj Singh @ Pankaj Kumar @ Pankaj Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.42678 of 2014 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -128 Year- 2012 Thana -BARAHIYA District- LAKHISARAI ====================================================== Pankaj Singh @ Pankaj Kumar @ Pankaj Kumar Singh Son of Late Bachchu Singh Resident of Village Chetan Tola Khutha, P.S. - Barahiya, District- Lakhisarai.

.... .... Petitioner

Versus

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

For the Petitioner : Mr. Bipin Kumar, Advocate.

For the Opposite Party : Mr. Satyendra Prasad (App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 24-04-2015 Heard both sides.

The petitioner seeks bail in Barahiya P.S. Case No. 128 of 2012, registered for the offences punishable under Section 304B and other Sections of the Indian Penal Code. The petitioner is the husband of the deceased.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the wife of the petitioner was suffering from malignancy and that is why she died during the course of treatment. When the informant came to know about the real facts of the death of the deceased, the informant filed a petition in the court. It is further submitted that two witnesses namely Satish Kumar Singh, the informant and Guddu Singh have been examined as P.W.1 and P.W. 2, but they did not support the prosecution case.

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42678 of 2014 (5) dt.24-04-2015 2/2 Considering the facts aforesaid and the fact that the petitioner is the husband and he did not appear for long in the court even after his rejection of anticipatory bail, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner above named on bail. Accordingly, the same is rejected.

The trial court is directed to expedite the trial and conclude the same within six months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order as the two important witnesses have already been examined. If the trial is not concluded within the stipulated time, the petitioner may renew his prayer for bail firstly before the court below.

It appears that the case diary was called for, but some of the learned APP received the same and even after frantic search the learned APP who has received the case diary could not be traced out. Therefore, the case diary is not available with this application.

(Prabhat Kumar Jha, J.) KKSINHA/- U T