Rina Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.74814 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-81 Year-2025 Thana- SANICHARI District- West Champaran ====================================================== 1.

Rina Devi Wife of Ramayan Yadav R/o Village - Ojha Barwa, P.S. - Shanichari, Dist. - West Champaran.

2.

Rabita Devi Wife of Upendra Yadav R/o Village - Ojha Barwa, P.S. - Shanichari, Dist. - West Champaran.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Brij Kishor Mishra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. (Dr.) Kumar Uday Pratap, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 04-11-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case in connection with Shanichari P.S. Case No. 81 of 2025 dated 14.07.2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 85, 80 and 238 read with Section 3(5) of the BNS.

3. As per the prosecution case, the daughter of the informant was subjected to torture and abuse by her in-laws including her husband due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry. It is further alleged that on 13.07.2025, the informant received an information that her daughter has fled away from her matrimonial house. The informant suspects that the in-laws

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.74814 of 2025(2) dt.04-11-2025 2/3 of her daughter has killed her due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the petitioners are innocent and have been falsely implicated in this case. The petitioner no. 1 is the mother-in-law of the deceased and petitioner no. 2 is the sister-in-law of the deceased. The petitioners neither demanded any dowry nor tortured the complainant. The allegation levelled in the FIR is false and fabricated and the petitioners have not committed any such offence as alleged in the FIR. There is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners. The petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as stated at para 3 of the bail petition.

5. Learned APP for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail petition of the petitioners.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as the nature of allegation against the petitioners, 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 enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.74814 of 2025(2) dt.04-11-2025 3/3 of learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Bettiah, West Champaran, in connection with Shanichari P.S. Case No. 81 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.

7. This application stands allowed.

(Chandra Prakash Singh, J) Shahnawaz/- U T