Sonu @ Sonu Kumar @ Vikas Kumar And ORS v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.1350 of 2018 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -613 Year- 2017 Thana -AGAMKUAN District- PATNA ======================================================

1. Sonu @ Sonu Kumar @ Vikas Kumar, S/O Shri Indra Deo Prasad, R/VKumhrar (Gobar Toli), Behind Kali Mandir, P.S. Agam Kuan, District and Town- Patna (Devar of the Informant).

2. Indra Deo Prasad, S/O Shri Jay Kumar Lal, R/V- Kumhrar (Gobar Toli), Behind Kali Mandir, P.S. Agam Kuan, District and Town- Patna (Father-In-Law of the Complainant).

3. Pappu Kumar @ Pappu Verma @ Pappu Kr. Verma, S/O Late Satya Narayan Prasad, resident of Shikshak Colony, Transport Nagar, P.S. Agam Kuan, District-Patna (Nandoshi of the Informant).

4. Rupa Kumari, W/O Sonu @ Vikas Kumar, R/M- Kumhrar (Gobar Toli), Behind Kali Mandir, P.S. Agam Kuan, District and Town- Patna (Gotni of the Informant).

.... .... Petitioners

Versus

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

For the Petitioners : Mr. Arun Kumar, Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Kumar Virendra Narayan, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH ORAL ORDER 16-01-2018 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case for the offence registered under Sections 341, 323, 504, 506, 498(A), 379/34 of the IPC and 3⁄4 of the D.P. Act. The prosecution story, in brief, is that the accused persons including the petitioners tortured the victim due to nonfulfillment of demand of dowry. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners have falsely been implicated in the present case. There is no allegation of tampering with the

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1350 of 2018 (2) dt.16-01-2018 2/2 witnesses alleged against the petitioners. The informant is in habit of filing of similar nature of cases against the petitioners. The petitioners are in-laws of the victim. They are separate in mess and property from the husband of the victim. The case is triable by the Magistrate. The petitioners have 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.

On behalf of the learned counsel for the State, it has been submitted that the petitioners are named in the F.I.R/ complaint case.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioners above named, in the event of 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/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M. Patna City, Patna, in connection with Agam Kuan P.S. Case No. 613 of 2017, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

U.K./- (Sudhir Singh, J) U T