Manjeet Singh @ Vicky v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.79100 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-3097 Year-2019 Thana- SARAN COMPLAINT CASE DistrictSaran ====================================================== Manjeet Singh @ Vicky S/o- Late Kamlesh Singh Village-Goha, P.S.-Isuapur, District-Saran.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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The State of Bihar 2.

Anjani Kumari W/o- Manjeet Singh @ Vicky, D/o- Suresh Prasad VillageBarki Sirisiya, P.S.-Bheldi, District-Saran. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Syed Ehteshamuddin ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 05-12-2024

1. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner, learned Counsel for the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2 and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No. 3097 of 2019, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498(A), 323, 504, 379, 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

3. The allegation, as per the complaint case, is that the marriage of the Opposite Party No. 2 was solemnized with the petitioner on 17.05.2019. After the marriage, all the accused persons started demanding Alto car. When she expressed her inability the complainant was tortured by the petitioner and other family members. It has further been alleged that when the complainant fell sick, instead of giving medical treatment, intoxicating injections were

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.79100 of 2024(2) dt.05-12-2024 2/3 given to her. On 14.06.2019, complainant's family members came to her matrimonial house and the complainant was allowed to go with them only after signing on a plain paper.

4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has not committed any offence in the manner alleged and he has falsely been implicated in this case. However, without prejudice to the right and contention of the petitioner, and in order to maintain harmony in the family, the petitioner is ready and willing to pay a sum of Rs. 3,000/- per month to the Opposite Party No. 2 as living cost, subject to the final outcome of the present case as well as the matrimonial case, if any, pending and/or decided between the parties.

5. Learned Counsel for the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2 accepts the offer so made by learned Counsel for the petitioner and submits that the petitioner may be directed to deposit the said amount of Rs. 3,000/- per month in the bank account of the complainant-Opposite Party No. 2, details of which shall be furnished by learned Counsel for the Opposite Party No. 2 to learned Counsel for the petitioner within ten days from today.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.79100 of 2024(2) dt.05-12-2024 3/3

6. After having heard learned Counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the materials on record and the fact that the offer made by learned Counsel for the petitioner has been accepted by learned Counsel for the Opposite Party No. 2, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail.

7. This application is, accordingly, allowed.

8. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest/surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on bail, upon furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra, in connection with Complaint Case No. 3097 of 2019.

9. This is subject to the condition that the petitioner shall deposit a sum of Rs. 3,000/- per month in the bank account of Opposite Party No. 2, staring from 6th January, 2025.

(Anil Kumar Sinha, J) HarshPandey/- U T