Nitijay Kumar @ Nitjay Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.68679 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-253 Year-2025 Thana- BELAGANJ District- Gaya ====================================================== 1.

Nitijay Kumar @ Nitjay Yadav S/O Mithlesh Yadav R/O village- Kabirpur, P.S.- Belaganj, District- Gaya 2.

Jaylal Kumar @ Jaylal Yadav S/O Mithlesh Yadav R/O village- Kabirpur, P.S.- Belaganj, District- Gaya 3.

Dhananjay Kumar @ Dhananjay Yadav S/O Mithlesh Yadav R/O villageKabirpur, P.S.- Belaganj, District- Gaya ... ... Petitioners

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Vinod Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Rita Verma, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. Petitioners apprehend arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 103(1), 238 and 3/5 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. Informant's sister was married with one Ranjay Kumar 8 years back. After sometime, petitioners and their family members started subjecting the victim to cruelty and harassment for non-fulfilment of demand of dowry. Later on, informant's sister was killed by these petitioners and other family members and secretly cremated the dead body.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.68679 of 2025(6) dt.02-02-2026 2/2 case. Petitioners are in-laws of the deceased. There is general and omnibus allegation against these petitioners and no specific overt act has been alleged against them. They are separate in mess and business. Thrust of allegation is against the husband of the deceased who is in custody.

5. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender within six weeks from today, let both the petitioners, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in Belaganj Police Station Case No. 253/2025, subject to the conditions laid down under section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) shashi/- U T