Monali Kumari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.84675 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-378 Year-2025 Thana- DARAUNDA District- Siwan ====================================================== 1.

Monali kumari Son of Ajay Pandey Resident of Village - Mahual Mahal, P.S. - M.H. Nagar, District - Siwan.

2.

Asha Devi Wife of Ajay Pandey Resident of Village - Mahual Mahal, P.S. - M.H. Nagar, District - Siwan.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Ms.Mili Kumari, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Ashok Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AJIT KUMAR ORAL ORDER 24-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Daraundha (M.H. Nagar) P.S. Case No. 378 of 2025, dated 28.07.2025 registered for the offences under Sections 80, 3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023.

3. As per prosecution case, the accusation against the accused persons including the petitioners is of torturing the informant's daughter with an intention to abort the foetus in her womb for demand of dowry.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.84675 of 2025(2) dt.24-12-2025 2/3 instant case. It is next submitted that the allegation made against the petitioners is general and omnibus in nature while the husband of the victim is already under judicial custody. The reason behind the death is strangulation. The petitioner no.1 is the unmarried sister-in-law of the victim against whom there is no specific allegation attributed and similarly, the allegation against the petitioner no.2 is also not very specific and both the petitioners were separate in mess and business from the coaccused Manish Pandey, who is said to be the husband of the victim.

5. Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into account the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as also the allegation levelled against the petitioners being simple in nature, this Court is inclined to grant privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners.

7. Let the petitioners, above named, be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.84675 of 2025(2) dt.24-12-2025 3/3 of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-VI, Siwan in connection with Daraundha (M.H. Nagar) P.S. Case No. 378 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023.

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