Rukmaniya Devi @ Rukmani Devi @ Rajmani Devi @ Rajmuni Devi @ Rukminiya Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.70284 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-532 Year-2023 Thana- MANER District- Patna ====================================================== Rukmaniya Devi @ Rukmani Devi @ Rajmani Devi @ Rajmuni Devi @ Rukminiya Devi Wife of Mahendra Rai Resident of Village- Naudiariya, Sherpur, P.S.- Maner, Distt.- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Rupesh Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Anita Kumari, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 24-01-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is further submitted that husband of the deceased has been acquitted by the learned trial court. Co-accused, namely, Bhuar Rai @ Anil Rai and Mantu Kumar had approached this Court seeking anticipatory bail by filing Cr. Misc. No. 60939 of 2024 and the same was allowed by an order dated 01.10.2024. It is next submitted that informant is not an eyewitness to the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.70284 of 2024(3) dt.24-01-2025 2/2 occurrence and the entire allegation hinges around suspicion and the date of occurrence is 07.07.2023 and the FIR came to be instituted on 24.07.2023 i.e. after a delay of more than 16 days of the occurrence which casts as aspersion on the case of the prosecution. It is also submitted that while granting the privilege of anticipatory bail to Bhuar Rai and another, the Court had considered the case on merit.
4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or 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.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 532 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T