Gudiya Khatoon @ Ruksana Khatoon v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.88408 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-260 Year-2024 Thana- SUGAULI District- East Champaran ====================================================== Gudiya Khatoon @ Ruksana Khatoon W/O Md. Ali Resident of Village- Amir Khan Tola, P.S.- Sugauli, District- East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Karandeep Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Braj Kishore Pd., APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 15-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in connection with Sugauli P.S. Case No. 260 of 2024 instituted for the offences under Sections 304B, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. Prosecution case, in short, is that the petitioner alongwith the family members tortured and killed the deceased for the non-fulfillment of demand of dowry.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case. Petitioner is the mother-in-law of the deceased. Learned
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.88408 of 2025(2) dt.15-01-2026 2/3 counsel for the petitioner submitted that general and omnibus allegation has been made against the petitioner. No specific overt act is alleged against the petitioner. Learned counsel further submitted that petitioner is separate in mess and business and has got no concern in the family affairs of the deceased and her husband. Learned counsel further submitted that the husband of the deceased was arrested in course of investigation and the trial was commenced and thereafter, he has been acquitted vide judgment dated 15.09.2025 passed in Sessions Trial No. 830 of 2024 which is annexed as Annexure-P/2 to the present bail application. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioner, above named, in the event of arrest/surrender before the Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with Sugauli P.S. Case No. 260 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.88408 of 2025(2) dt.15-01-2026 3/3 Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Alok Verma/- U T