Ankit Kumar @ Aniket Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.90385 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-465 Year-2024 Thana- PHULWARISHARIF District- Patna ====================================================== Ankit Kumar @ Aniket Kumar S/O Manjeet Kumar R/o Village- Murgawa, P.S.- Ben, Distt.- Nalanda (Biharsharif).

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mrs. Jyoti Kumari, Adv.

For the Informant Mr. Purushotam Sharma, Adv.

For the State :

Mr. Bharat Lal, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 22-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the informant.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 341, 323, 498A, 504, 506, 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

3. By an earlier order, the matter had been sent to the Patna High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre for resolution of disputes between the parties but the same has also failed.

4. The prosecution case is based upon an FIR filed by the informant in which she has made an allegation of demand of dowry and torture. Petitioner is the husband of the informant.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.90385 of 2024(3) dt.22-07-2025 2/3

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the allegations levelled in the FIR are not correct and as a matter of fact, the petitioner has always been ready to keep the opposite party no.2 with full dignity and honour while the informant herself is not ready to reside in the matrimonial house.

6. Learned counsel for the informant, however, controverts the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and rather supports the allegations made in the FIR.

7. At this stage, the petitioner offers to give Rs.3000/- (rupees three thousand) per month to the informant in the first week of every month. It goes without saying that the aforesaid payment shall be subject to any order passed in matrimonial maintenance case or any other collateral proceeding.

8. In such view of the matter, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) 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 Phulwarisharif (Janipur) P.S. Case No. 465 of 2024, subject to

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.90385 of 2024(3) dt.22-07-2025 3/3 the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S., and subject to the further condition that the petitioner shall cooperate in the investigation/trial.

9. Learned counsel for the informant, under instruction, submits that the informant undertakes to provide her bank account details to the petitioner within a period of two weeks from today. If the informant furnishes the bank account in which the amount can be transferred, and yet the petitioner fails to give the aforesaid amount on two consecutive dates to the informant, the informant would be at liberty to file cancellation of bail.

10. Accordingly, this application stands disposed of. (Soni Shrivastava, J) devendra/- U T