Urmila Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.62269 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-419 Year-2022 Thana- BAGHA District- West Champaran ====================================================== URMILA DEVI W/o Ramesh Sah R/o Village- Nadda, P.S.- Bhairoganj, Distt- West Champaran.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Vijay Kr Singh No. 1 For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Dinesh Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL KUMAR PANWAR ORAL ORDER 23-06-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner has prayed for bail in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 302, 304(B), 120(B) & 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

As per allegation in the FIR, petitioner has tortured in various ways due to non-fulfillment dowry demand to the daughter of the informant and ultimately petitioner killed her with her five months lap child by putting them on fire. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner has submitted that petitioner is mother-in-law of the deceased and has been falsely implicated in this case. She is a sick lady infected with HIV. The matter is of accidental fire as when the police visited at the place of occurrence, they broke the roof

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.62269 of 2022(8) dt.23-06-2023 2/2 then entered into the house because the house was locked from inside. Husband of the deceased had gone to foreign to earn his livelihood. Petitioner is languishing in judicial custody since 29.08.2022.

The application for bail is opposed by learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the informant and submitted that it is a double murder case as the informant's daughter was set on fire with her lap child of five months old by the petitioner. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and considering the facts and circumstances of the case, this court is inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail after framing of charge. The above named petitioner is directed to be enlarged on bail after framing of charge on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. ten thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned ACJM 1st, Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Bagaha (Bhairoganj) P.S. Case No. 419 of 2022.

(Sunil Kumar Panwar, J) sushma/- U