Lalan Ram v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.83059 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-88 Year-2024 Thana- PATKHAULI District- West Champaran ====================================================== Lalan Ram Son of Late Suraj Ram R/O-Village Pathkhauli, Ward No. 2, P.S. Bagaha (Pathkhauli), Dist. -West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Vijay Kr Singh No. 1, Adv.
For the State :
Mr. Kalyan Shankar, APP.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 28-04-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 304(B), 506, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. All the F.I.R. named accused persons including this petitioner, on non-fulfillment of demand of dowry, in furtherance of the common intention are said to have committed murder of the daughter of the informant.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that all the allegations levelled against the petitioner are totally based on concocted facts. The further submission is that petitioner, being bhaisur of the deceased, had no concern with the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83059 of 2024(4) dt.28-04-2025 2/3 internal dispute of the husband and wife (deceased) and he has been residing separately from them since long. It is also pointed out that the husband of the deceased, who is primarily responsible for the welfare of his wife, was taken into custody and was subsequently granted the privilege of bail by this Court vide order dated 27.03.2025 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 120 of 2025. It is further submitted that a bare perusal of the FIR would itself go to show that there is general and omnibus nature of allegations against all the family members of the petitioner and to some extent, it is specific against co-accused Lokesh Thakur and Kamlesh Thakur of demanding dowry and threatening the deceased.
5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail.
6. Considering the general and omnibus nature of allegations as well as the clean antecedent of the petitioner, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner, who has no criminal antecedent. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83059 of 2024(4) dt.28-04-2025 3/3 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate 1st, Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Pathkhauli P.S. Case No. 88 of 2024, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438
(2) of the Cr.P.C/ 482 (2) of the BNSS, 2023. (Soni Shrivastava, J) divyanshi/- U T