Ranjeet Ram @ Bhola v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.69419 of 2018 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-92 Year-2016 Thana- GORAUL District- Vaishali ====================================================== Ranjeet Ram @ Bhola, S/o Baidyanath Ram, Resident of Village- Bathna Mahodaya, P.S.- Goraul, District- Vaishali. ... ... Petitioner.

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Chandra Shekhar Anand For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Uday Chand Prasad ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRAKASH CHANDRA JAISWAL ORAL ORDER 19-12-2018 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in connection with S. Tr. No.245 of 2017, arising out of Goroul P.S. Case No. 92 of 2016, registered under Section 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The petitioner along with other accused persons is said to have committed murder of his wife by assaulting her with sharp edged weapon over some family dispute.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no such occurrence as alleged ever took place. As a matter of fact, the deceased had gone to maize filed for defecation and she was eliminated by some unknown miscreants and on hulla when the petitioner rushed there, he was also assaulted by them and he fell senseless. There is no eye witness of the occurrence. The petitioner has been languishing in custody since 09.07.2016. Earlier the bail prayer of the petitioner was rejected on 13.12.2017 with a direction to the learned lower court to

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.69419 of 2018(2) dt.19-12-2018 2/2 conclude the trial as expeditiously as possible preferably within nine months but out of six witnesses only one witness has been examined up till now and moreover the case has been compromised.

From perusal of the record, it appears that the daughter of the deceased has supported the occurrence of committing murder of her mother by the petitioner by means of dagger which also stands corroborated by the postmortem report.

Considering the facts aforesaid, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail. The prayer for bail is hereby rejected. However, the learned lower court is directed to dispose of the case within further six months positively by fixing the case on day to day basis and the Superintendent of Police, Vaishali at Hajipur is directed to ensure the production of the witnesses on each and every date fixed in the case. Let a copy of this order be communicated to the Superintendent of Police, Vaishali at Hajipur. (Prakash Chandra Jaiswal, J) Trivedi/- U T