Patna High CourtCR. MISC./77387/2024bail granted

Santoshlal Deo v. The State Of Bihar

2025-04-19Justice Smt. Soni Shrivastava3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.77387 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-198 Year-2022 Thana- SAHARSA COMPLAINT CASE District- Saharsa ====================================================== Santoshlal Deo S/O Kapilal Deo R/O Village- Pohaddi Vela, Ward No.-8, P.SGhanshyampur, Distt.- Darbhanga. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar 2.

Rani Devi W/O Santoshlal Deo, D/O Guruprasad Yadav R/O VillagePohaddi Vela, Ward No.-8, P.S- Ghayanshyam Pur, Dist.- Darbhanga. At Present- Village- Bhagwatpur, P.S- Sour Bazar, Distt.- Saharsa. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Pramod Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Md. Anzarul Haque Sahara ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 19-04-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the complainant.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Saharsa Complaint Case no.198C of 2022 registered under sections 498A, 323, 494, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. As per the complaint petition, the complainant states that her husband Santosh Lal Deo, the petitioner herein, started to assault the complainant mentally and physically and also stopped her food and other essential services.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. The allegation of torture and abuse is false and concocted. The petitioner is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.77387 of 2024(4) dt.19-04-2025 2/3 always ready to keep his wife with full dignity and honour.

5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State as also learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2.

6. At this stage, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner makes an offer to pay Rs. 3,000/- to his wife in the second week of every month for her basic requirements along with her children. It goes without saying that the aforesaid payment shall be subject to any order passed in matrimonial maintenance case or any other collateral proceeding.

7. Considering the aforesaid facts of the case, it is directed that the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Saharsa Complaint Case no.198C of 2022 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate-1st Class, Sahars, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure/Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S, 2023 and subject to the further condition that the petitioner shall co-

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7. If the opposite party no. 2 furnishes the Bank account in which the amount can be transferred and yet the petitioner fails to make the aforesaid payment of Rs. 3,000/- on two consecutive dates, the opposite party no. 2 would be at liberty to file cancellation of bail.

(Soni Shrivastava, J) Harsh/- U T