Ramanand Paswan v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.1523 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-17 Year-2021 Thana- JEHANABAD COMPLAINT CASE District- Jehanabad ====================================================== Ramanand Paswan S/O Late Ganari Paswan R/O Village - Chaupaha, P.SGhosi, District- Jehanabad ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
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The State of Bihar 2.
Deomanti Devi @ Devanti Devi W/O Ramanand Paswan R/O Village - Chaupaha, P.S- Ghosi, District- Jehanabad ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Sanjeev Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Rajendra Prasad Nat, APP For the complainant :
Mr. Rajendra Pd. Nut, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 30-04-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the complainant.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Complaint Case no.17 of 2021 registered under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.
3. As per the prosecution case, the complainat states that her husband Ramanand Paswan, the petitioner herein, started to assault the informant mentally and physically on account of non-fulfillment of demand of dowry and also ousted her from matrimonial house.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. The allegation
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.1523 of 2025(4) dt.30-04-2025 2/3 of demand of dowry and torture is false and concocted. It is a peculiar case where both the petitioner and the opposite party no. 2 are the senior citizens and have been fighting unnecessarily. The dispute between the parties is only with respect to the fact that the opposite party no. 2 wants to reside in a house which has been alloted to her under the Indra Awas Yojana. The petitioner, however, controverts the same by stating that the said house neither belongs to the petitioner nor to the opposite party no. 2 but the same belongs to his nephew and it is not possible for him to take opposite party no. 2 in that house. The petitioner is always ready to keep his wife with full dignity and honour where he stays, to which, the opposite party no. 2 does not agree.
5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State as also learned counsel for the complainant.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts of the case, it is directed that the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Complaint Case no.17 of 2021 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.1523 of 2025(4) dt.30-04-2025 3/3 sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrat-1st Class, Jehanabd, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure/Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S, 2023. (Soni Shrivastava, J) Harsh/- U T