Ekbal Khan @ Iqbal v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.73055 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-156 Year-2022 Thana- GAYA COMPLAINT CASE DistrictGaya ====================================================== 1.

EKBAL KHAN @ IQBAL S/O IBRAR KHAN Resident of VillageKhandail, P.O.- Bishunpura, P.S.- Sherghati, District- Gaya. 2.

ARMANA KHATOON W/O EKBAL KHAN @ IQBAL Resident of Village- Khandail, P.O.- Bishunpura, P.S.- Sherghati, District- Gaya. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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THE STATE OF BIHAR 2.

ZUBI KHATOON W/O SARFARAZ KHAN D/O LAYEEK KHAN Resident of village- Baniya- Braun, P.O.- Bishunpura, P.S.- Sherghati, District- Gaya, Presently at Village- Pananyia, P.O.- Pananyia, P.S.- Imamganj, District- Gaya.

... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Md. Murad Ashraf For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs.Asha Devi ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 02-02-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.

The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 498A, 494, 376, 504, 506, 323 and 341 of the Indian Penal Code pending in the learned court below.

The allegation against the petitioners is of torturing the complainant in association of his family members on account of non-fulfillment of demand of dowry. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.73055 of 2022(2) dt.02-02-2023 2/2 petitioners are innocent and have been falsely implicated in this case. He further submits that petitioner no.1 is the brother-inlaw and petitioner no.2 is the sister-in-law of the of the complainant. He submits that there is no specific overt act against the petitioners. He further submits that petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as stated in para-3 of the bail application.

Learned APP for the State opposes for prayer for bail. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioners, named above, in the event of their arrest/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.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned Court below, where the case is pending/Successor court, in connection with Sherghati Complaint Case No.156/2022, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) ajay/- U T