Page No.# 1/3 GAHC010182352025 undefined THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : Bail Appln./2641/2025 RANJIT GOALA S/O LT. RAMRAJ GOALA, R/O VILL. KHALKURI, HATIKURI, GRANT, P.S. LAKHIPUR, DIST. CACHAR, ASSAM. VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM REPRESENTED BY PP, ASSAM. Advocate for the Petitioner : MR. M H LASKAR, M. HOSSAIN,MR. S ROY Advocate for the Respondent : PP, ASSAM, BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV KUMAR SHARMA ORDER 02.09.2025 1. Heard Mr. M. H. Laskar, learned counsel for the accused petitioner as well as Mr. D. P. Goswami, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Assam. 2. By this petition under Section 483 BNSS, the accused-petitioner, namely, Ranjit Goala who was arrested on 03.07.2025 in connection with Lakhipur PS Case No. Page No.# 2/3 82/2025 under Section 80(2)/3(5) of BNS. 3. The gist of allegation in the FIR is that on 28.06.2025 in connection with an FIR lodged on 27.06.2025 by one Sri. Ram Pati Goala alleging inter-alia that his daughter Smt. Ritu Goala was married to the petitioner on 08.07.2022 as per Hindu rituals and during the marriage he had provided gifts and money as per his financial capacity which was accepted by the petitioner and other family members co-accused. But they were not satisfied with the gifts and at the instigation of the co-accused, the petitioner demanded a motor-cycle and Rs. 2,00,000/- in cash from the informant through his daughter. When his daughter informed them about the financial incapacity of her father, they started torture and non-fulfillment of demand of dowry, they again started torturing his daughter. On 26.06.2025 at about 5.30 PM, the petitioner informed him over phone that his daughter had fallen into a well near their residence and was in critical condition and she was taken to Silchar Medical College. On reaching there, he had found his daughter lying dead and as such he could realize that his daughter was killed by the accused persons by way of a conspiracy. The said FIR was registered as Lakhipur PS Case No. 82/2025 u/s 80(2)/3(5) of the BNS. 4. It is submitted by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor that the cause of death has been kept pending subject to receive of FSL report. It appears that the petitioner was initially remanded to five days police custody where after he was remanded to judicial custody and in the meantime, he has already spend 66 days in custody during which time investigation has progressed and is pending for FSL report. 5. Considering the above, further detention of the petitioner is not considered to be necessary. 6. Accordingly, it is provided that the accused petitioner, named above, shall be released on bail of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of Page No.# 3/3 like amount to the satisfaction of learned SDJM(M), Lakhipur, Cachar subject to the following condition- i) That the accused petitioner 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 facts to the Court. 7. The bail application stands disposed of. JUDGE Comparing Assistant