Isha @ Sneha Keshari v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.83307 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-422 Year-2022 Thana- PATNA CITY CHOWK District- Patna ====================================================== Isha @ Sneha Keshari Wife of Vivek Kumar Sinha Resident of Macharhatta Gali, P.S.- Khajekalan, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner :
Mr. Satya Prakash Parasar, Advocate For the State :
Mr. Nawal Kishore Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 09-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 498A, 306 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. As per prosecution case, marriage of informant's sister was solemnized with co-accused Vikram Sinha in the year 2010 as per Hindu rites and rituals. It is alleged that after five years of marriage, all the F.I.R. named accused persons, including this petitioner, started torturing and harassing her for dowry and subsequently, on 24.09.2022, the victim committed suicide due to torture of these accused persons.
4. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that petitioner is quite innocent and has committed no offence.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83307 of 2025(3) dt.09-02-2026 2/3 Informant is not an eye witness to the occurrence. Informant is not an eye witness to the occurrence. Petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case merely because she happens to be Gotni (sister-in-law) of the deceased. Petitioner is separate in mess and property and has got no concern with the affairs of deceased and her husband. Allegation of torture and demand of dowry is general and omnibus. As a matter of fact, the deceased herself committed suicide and there is no allegation that this petitioner played any role or instigated the deceased to commit suicide. Moreover, similarly situated co-accused persons have already been granted the privilege of anticipatory bail by this Hon'ble Court vide order dated 12.02.2025 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 1827 of 2025. Petitioner is a lady and claims clean antecedents.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, general and omnibus nature of accusation, claim based on parity and clean antecedents of the petitioner, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner is allowed.
7. According, in the event of arrest or surrender within eight weeks from today, let the petitioner, as named above, be
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83307 of 2025(3) dt.09-02-2026 3/3 enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial MagistrateVI, Patna City, Patna in connection with Chowk P.S. Case No. 422 of 2022, subject to the conditions laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) shashank/- U T