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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.68654 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-138 Year-2025 Thana- ITARHI District- Buxar ======================================================
1. Ranjan Kumar S/o- Gorakh Singh R/v- Barahana Ps- Itarhi Dist- Buxar
2. Priti Kumari @ Chanchali D/o- Gorakh Singh R/v- Barahana Ps- Itarhi Dist- Buxar
3. Gudi Devi W/o- Gorakh Singh R/v- Barahana Ps- Itarhi Dist- Buxar
4. Gorakh Singh S/o- Late Sheo Bachan Singh R/v- Barahana Ps- Itarhi Dist- Buxar ... ... Petitioners Versus The State of Bihar ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Dr.Kamal Deo Sharma, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Lakshmi Kant Sharma, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. Petitioners apprehend arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 80 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 3. Informant’s daughter was married with one Chandan Kumar in 2022. After sometime, petitioners and their family members started subjecting the victim to cruelty and harassment for non-fulfilment of demand of dowry. On 25.7.2025 informant received message that his daughter is serious. When the informant went to the matrimonial house of his daughter, he found his daughter lying dead. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.68654 of 2025(2) dt.07-10-2025 2/2 case. Petitioner no.1 is unmarried dewar (brother-in-law), petitioner no.2 is unmarried nanad (sister-in-law), petitioner no.3 is sas (mother-in-law) and petitioner no. 4 is sasur (father- in-law) of the deceased. There is general and omnibus allegation against these petitioners and no specific overt act has been alleged against them. They are separate in mess and business. Thrust of allegation is against the husband of the deceased who is in custody since 27.7.2025. 5. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail. 6.
Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender within six weeks from today, let both the petitioners, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in Itarhi Police Station Case No. 138 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Shashi (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) U T