Devi Lal Rai v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.82144 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-340 Year-2023 Thana- MAHUA District- Vaishali ====================================================== 1.
DEVI LAL RAI S/O LATE LEKHAN RAI VILLAGE- MAHUA MUKUNDPUR,PS. MAHUA, DIST. VAISHALI 2.
PRAMILA DEVI @ PARMILA DEVI W/O DEVI LAL RAI VILLAGEMAHUA MUKUNDPUR,PS. MAHUA, DIST. VAISHALI 3.
MANISHA KUMARI D/O DEVI LAL RAI VILLAGE- MAHUA MUKUNDPUR,PS. MAHUA, DIST. VAISHALI ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Pranav Kumar, Adv.
Mr.Rajeev Ranjan No.II, Adv.
Mrs.Priyanka Kumari, Adv.
Mrs.Kumari Rupa, Adv.
For the State :
Mr.Bishweshwar Ram, APP For the Informant :
Mr.Manoj Kumar, Adv.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 04-01-2024 Heard learned counsel for the parties.
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The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable u/s 304(B)/34 of the IPC. 3.
Allegedly, F.I.R. named accused persons including the petitioners are said to have killed the daughter of the informant due to non-fulfillment of demand of motorcycle as dowry. 4.
It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners are quite innocent and have committed no offence. They have been falsely implicated in this case due to grudge. Petitioners have been made accused in this case on the basis that they are the father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law of the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.82144 of 2023(2) dt.04-01-2024 2/2 deceased but there is no specific allegation against them and they used to live separately from the deceased and her husband. They neither made any dowry demand nor tortured the deceased. The husband of the deceased is already in judicial custody, which fact is also mentioned in para-12 of the bail application. Petitioners have no criminal antecedent. 5.
Learned APP for the State as well as learned counsel for the informant opposed the prayer for bail by submitting that the petitioners are also involved in the present case. 6.
Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, since husband of the deceased is in judicial custody, let the above named petitioners, be released on bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Mahua P.S. Case No.340 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) pallavi/- U T