2025:JHHC:25161 1 A.B.A. No. 4692 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4692 of 2025 ---- 1.Puja Kumari, aged about 22 years daughter of Bhuneshwar Das 2.Putul Kumari aged about 24 years wife of Manoj Kumar @ Manoj Ram 3.Aditya Ram aged about 24 years son of Bhuneshwar Ram All resident of Village Baraini, PO and PS Chatra, District Chatra .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Amit Kumar Choubey, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Rakesh Kr.Sinha, Advocate ---- 2/25.08.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Chatra P.S. Case No.344 of 2022, for offence registered under section 304B and 34 IPC, pending in court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that false allegations are made that after marriage certain demand was made by the family of the in-laws of the deceased and subsequently the allegations are that she has been murdered. He submits that investigation is going on and the petitioners are in-laws, being petitioner no.2 married sister in law, petitioner no.1 is sister in law and the petitioner no.3 is brother in law of the deceased. He submits that charge sheet has been submitted and some of the accused persons have already faced the trial and even Manoj Ram who is husband of the petitioner no.2 has been acquitted by the judgment dated 02.01.2024 by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-III, Chatra in S.T. Case No.98 of 2023. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the allegations are there of torture. 5. Considering that Manoj Ram who happened to be husband 2025:JHHC:25161 2 A.B.A. No. 4692 of 2025 of the petitioner no.2 has been acquitted by the judgment dated 02.01.2024 by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-III, Chatra in S.T. Case No.98 of 2023 and the petitioner no.2 is married sister in law, petitioner no.1 is sister in law and the petitioner no.3 is brother in law of the deceased, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioners. 6. Accordingly, petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Chatra P.S. Case No.344 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/