Prakash Das v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.72364 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-108 Year-2022 Thana- MAHILA P.S. District- Patna ====================================================== Prakash Das S/O Late Lalit Kumar Das R/O Jamshedpur, House NO. 14 N, 16 XN Type Road 19, Sidgoda, Agrico, East Singhbhum (Jharkhand). ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
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The State of Bihar 2.
Jyoti Kumari D/O Surendra Kumar Suman, W/O Bharat Kumar Thakur House No. 91, Mithila Colony, Nasriganj, P.S- Danapur, Distt.- Patna. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner :
Mr.Prabhas Ranjan For the State :
Mr.Pronoti Singh For the OP-2 :
None ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 22-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. Despite valid service of notice, nobody appears on behalf of opposite party no. 2.
2. The petitioner, husband of the opposite party no. 2, apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence under Sections 498-A/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3/ 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
3. Allegation against petitioner is of matrimonial cruelty and demand for dowry.
4. While denying the allegations made in the present petition, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case merely
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72364 of 2025(4) dt.22-01-2026 2/2 because he happens to be husband of opposite party no. 2. At no point of time, petitioner demanded any dowry or committed torture with opposite party no. 2 and is still ready to keep the opposite party no. 2 with full honour and dignity. Moreover, the case is triable by the learned Magistrate. The petitioner has further relied upon the judgment of this Court in the case of Md. Naimul Haque Ansari @ Naimul Haque Ansari & Ors. Vs. The State of Bihar, reported in 2006(3) PLJR 182.
5. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of eight weeks from today, let this petitioner, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned J.M. 1st Class, Patna in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No. 108 of 2022, subject to the conditions, as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) anay U T