Munna Rai And ORS v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Criminal Miscellaneous No.8673 of 2018 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -238 Year- 2017 Thana -UCHAKAGAON District- GOPALGANJ ======================================================
1. Munna Rai, S/o- Keshav Rai.
2. Manu Kumari, D/o- Keshav Rai.
3. Nikky Devi, W/o- Murari Rai.
4. Rubi Devi, W/o- Munna Rai.
All are Resident of Village- Brahmain, P.S.- Uchaka Gaon, DistrictGopalganj. .... .... Petitioners
Versus
The State of Bihar.
.... .... Opposite Party.
====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioners : Mr.
For the State : Mr. For the Informant : Mr.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJENDRA KUMAR MISHRA ORAL ORDER -------------- 17-02-2018 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned A.P.P. for the State as also the learned counsel for the informant. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Uchakagaon P.S. Case No.238 of 2017 registered under Sections 304B/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
The accusation is of setting the sister of the informant on fire in which she sustained burn injury and died in course of treatment.
Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submits that the petitioners are brother-in-law, sister-in-law and
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8673 of 2018 (2) dt.17-02-2018 2/2 two Gotanies of the deceased, the sister of the informant, and have falsely been implicated in this case with an ulterior motive. Further submission is that no specific overt act is attributed to the petitioners. Moreover, Keshav Rai and Sunar Devi alias Sunder Devi alias Sundari Devi, the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the deceased, the sister of the informant, respectively, have already been granted the privilege of pre-arrest bail by a Bench of this Court vide order dated 11.01.2018 passed in Criminal Misc. No.63220 of 2017.
Having considered the facts and the circumstances of the case, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender by them within six weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on their furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj, in connection with Uchakagaon P.S. Case No.238 of 2017, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. (Rajendra Kumar Mishra, J) P.S./- U T