Sheo Pujan Rai v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.71807 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-348 Year-2023 Thana- BHELDI District- Saran ====================================================== Saraswati Devi W/o Sheo Pujan Rai R/o Village- Maksudpur, P.S.- Bheldi, District- Saran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Manoj Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Rabindra Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 25-02-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State, Mr. Rabindra Kumar.
2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304(B), 201 and 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. It is next submitted that petitioner had earlier moved this Court seeking anticipatory bail, but the same was permitted to be withdrawn by Annexure P/1 to the anticipatory bail application, but then subsequent development took place, as such, second anticipatory bail application has been filed. It is next submitted that husband of the deceased has been acquitted by the learned
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71807 of 2024(3) dt.25-02-2025 2/3 Trial Court as the witnesses including the informant were not able to prove the case.
4. The learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that petitioner, being mother-in-law of the deceased, has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant who is not an eye witness to the occurrence. It is also submitted that since the husband of the deceased has been acquitted by the learned Trial Court whether it would be prudent for the Court to send the petitioner to jail being mother-in-law of the deceased, more so, when the allegations are in realm of allegation. It is also submitted that petitioner will not abscond rather will co-operate in the trial to prove her innocence.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned trial court 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 trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Bheldi P.S. Case
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71807 of 2024(3) dt.25-02-2025 3/3 No. 348 of 2023 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T