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2025:CGHC:13737
NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 2269 of 2025 1 - Meena Nirmalkar W/o Manharan Nirmalkar Aged About 50 Years R/o Ward No. 06, Shitlapara Vill. Bijetala P.S. Ghumka District - Rajnandgaon (C.G.)
... Applicant(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through P.S. Ghumka District - Rajnandgaon (C.G.)
... Respondent(s) For Applicant(s) : Shri Rakesh Kumar Thakur, Advocate For Respondent/State : Ms. Sunita Manikpuri, PL (Hon’ble Shri Justice Arvind Kumar Verma)
Order on Board 21/03/2025 The applicant has filed this bail application under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagrrik Suraksha Sanhita for grant of regular bail as she is in custody in connection with Crime No. 79/2024 registered at police station Ghumka, District Rajnandgaon (CG) for the offence punishable under Sections 302,201,120-B and 34 IPC.
2. Prosecution case in brief is that the applicant and the co-accused persons were frustrated with the deceased as he used to abuse and SUGUNA DUBEY Digitally signed by SUGUNA DUBEY Date: 2025.03.24 11:32:07 +0530
2 quarrel with them after consuming liquor. It is alleged that the applicant along with other co-accused persons hatched a conspiracy to kill him and on 15.05.2024, co-accused persons namely Balmukund and Manharan assaulted the deceased with axe and committed his murder and after packing the body in a jute bag threw in the well. After 3-4 days, when the body was recovered, FIR was registered against the applicant and other co-accused persons.
4. Counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the case. He submits that the family members of the deceased were annoyed with the deceased because after consuming liquor he used to abuse and quarrel with the family members. He submits that the applicant was made accused only on the basis of memorandum statement of the accused and there is no eyewitness to the incident. It is submitted that nothing has been recovered from the applicant and she is in jail since 18.05.2024, the charge sheet has been filed and the trial is likely to take some time, she is ready and willing to comply with any of the conditions which may be imposed upon him and thus, it is submitted that the application be allowed and the applicant be released on bail.
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Learned counsel for the respondent/State, on the other hand, has opposed the bail application.
6. Heard counsel for the parties and perused the record.
8. On due consideration of the rival submissions and the fact that being annoyed with the deceased, the applicant had cooperated in the commission of the said offence and the applicant is in jail since 18.05.2024, the charge sheet has been filed and the final disposal of the
3 trial is likely to take sufficiently long time, the present application deserves to be allowed. Accordingly, her bail application is allowed.
9. It is directed that in the event of applicant executing a personal bond for a sum of Rs. 10,000/- with one surety to the satisfaction of the concerned trial court, she shall be released on bail on the following conditions: (i) she shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement,threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such fact to the Court, (ii) she shall not act in any manner which will be prejudicial to fair and expeditious trial, and (iii) she shall appear before the trial Court on each and every date given to her by the said Court till disposal of the trial, (iv) she shall not involve himself in any offence of similar nature in future.
Sd/- (Arvind Kumar Verma) Judge