Pappu Kumar @ Banda v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.8272 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-331 Year-2022 Thana- MAGADH UNIVERSITY District- Gaya ====================================================== PAPPU KUMAR @ BANDA S/O RAJDEV YADAV R/O VILL- ATIYA, PSMAGADH UNIVERSITY, DIST- GAYA, STATE- BIHAR ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR PATNA ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Aryan Singh,Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Ram Sumiran Rai, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 03-04-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State.
2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in connection with Session Trial No. 441 of 2023 Magadh University (M.U.) P.S. Case No. 331 of 2022 dated 14.10.2022 registered for the offences punishable u/s 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and the co-accused persons are alleged to have tortured and strangulated the informant's daughter to death due to nonfulfillment of demand of dowry.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.8272 of 2024(3) dt.03-04-2024 2/3
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. There is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioner. It is further submitted that the petitioner never demanded any dowry from the informant's daughter. The co-accused person has already been granted bail by this court vide order dated 20.07.2023 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 42786 of 2023. The petitioner has got clean antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is the husband of the deceased and he is in custody since 15.10.2022.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the period of custody, the petitioner above-named, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court concerned, Gaya in connection with Sessions Trial No. 441 of 2023 arising out of Magadh University (M.U.) P.S. Case No. 331 of 2022, with the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.8272 of 2024(3) dt.03-04-2024 3/3 condition:- (i) The petitioner is directed to remain physically present before the learned Court below on each and every date, failing which on two consecutive dates without reasonable cause, the bail bond of the petitioner is liable to be cancelled.
7. The application stands allowed.
(Chandra Prakash Singh, J) guddukr/- U T