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2025 DAILYLAW 101945 (PAT)

Kiran Devi @ Kiran Kumari v. The State of Bihar

CR. MISC./78438/2025 · 2025-11-17

Chandra Prakash Singh

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.78438 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-57 Year-2024 Thana- MAHILA PS District- Darbhanga ====================================================== 1. Kiran Devi @ Kiran Kumari W/o Rajesh Sah R/o Village- Kewtasa, P.O- Benibaag, P.S- Gayaghat, Dist- Muzaffarpur State Bihar 2. Rajesh Sah @ Rajesh Kumar Sah S/o Late Laxshman Sah R/o Village- Kewatsa, P.O- Benibaag, P.S- Gayaghat, Dist- Mazaffarpur State Bihar 3. Ranjeet Sah @ Ranjeet Kumar S/o Shiv Jee Sah R/o Village- Kewatsa P.O- Benibaag, P.S- Gayaghat, Dist- Muzaffarpur, State Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar Bihar 2. Sonam Kumari W/o Amarjeet Kumar, D/o Bharat Sah R/o Mohalla-Naka No.1 Stelaganj, Kadirabaad, P.O- Lalbaag, P.S- L.N.M.U, Dist- Darbhanga, State Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Abhay Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Nirmal Kumar Sinha ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-11-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No. 57 of 2024 dated 18.06.2024 registered for the offence/s punishable u/ss 323, 341, 504, 506, 498A read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and ¾ of the DP Act. 3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioners and the co-accused persons are alleged to have tortured the informant Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78438 of 2025(2) dt.17-11-2025 2/3 mentally and physically due to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case. The petitioner no. 1 is the sister-in-law, the petitioner no. 2 is the brother-in-law and the petitioner no. 3 is the Devar of the informant. The petitioners neither demanded any dowry nor tortured the informant. There is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners. The petitioner no. 1 has clean antecedent, and the petitioner no. 2 and 3 have one criminal antecedents as stated at para 3 of the bail petition. 5. Learned counsel for the informant as well as learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the anticipatory bail petition of the petitioners. 6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the allegation being general and omnibus, let the above named petitioners, in the event of their arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bonds of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court concerned, Darbhanga in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No. 57 of 2024, Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78438 of 2025(2) dt.17-11-2025 3/3 subject to conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the BNSS. 8. The application stands allowed. guddukr/- (Chandra Prakash Singh, J) U T