Sabina Khatun @ Chhoti @ Sabina Praveen v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65449 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-21 Year-2024 Thana- JAMHOR District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Sabina Khatun @ Chhoti @ Sabina Praveen D/O Aslam Shah, W/O Md. Mahboob Shah, R/O Village- Batwan, Barthouli Tola, Ansari bigha, P.S.- Jamhore, Distt.- Aurangabad (Bihar).
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Aman Vishal, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Pramod Kumar Pandey, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PURNENDU SINGH ORAL ORDER 17-09-2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the learned APP for the State.
2. Petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail in connection with Jamhore P.S.Case No.21/2024, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304B/34 of the Indian Penal Code .
3. As per the allegation made in the FIR, the other accused persons including the petitioner committed murder of the daughter of the informant, due to non-fulfilment of the demand of dowry.
4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submitted that the deceased has herself committed suicide. Petitioner is married and she lives separately being sister-in-law of the deceased. Petitioner has clean antecedent.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65449 of 2025(2) dt.17-09-2025 2/2
5. Learned APP for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of pre-arrest bail to the petitioner.
6. Having considered the rival submissions made on behalf of the parties, as well as, considering the fact that the deceased has committed suicide. The petitioner claims that she was in her own matrimonial home at another place and she had no concern with the spouse. The petitioner is directed to be released on pre-arrest bail, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned district court within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned ACJM-VII, Aurangabad/concerned court, in connection with Jamhore P.S.Case No.21 of 2024, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of BNSS of 2023.
7. The learned district court is directed to verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if it is found that the petitioner is involved in some other cases as what has been stated in paragraph No.3 of the bail application, this order will automatically lose its force.
(Purnendu Singh, J) chn/- U T