2025:JHHC:12783 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.5533 of 2024 ------ 1. Banti Sharma 2. Manoj Sharma 3. Anita Devi … … Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Jharkhand. 2. Meena Devi @ Babita Devi. … … Opposite Parties ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Mukesh Bihari Lal, Advocate For the State : Mr. Nawin Kr. Singh, Advocate ----- 03/ 29.04.2025 Heard the parties. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioners apprehending their arrest for offences under Section 304-B IPC. 3. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 4. The petitioners are the in-laws of the deceased. There is an allegation of demand of dowry and dowry death. The husband of the deceased has already been granted bail in B.A. No.7520 of 2024, wherein the Coordinate Bench after going through the case diary has held that there is no external or internal injury on the person of the deceased. 5. Further, from Annexure-2 to this petition, I find that the cause of death is eight month’s pregnancy and status epilepticus and the secondary cause is cardiac arrest. 6. Considering the fact that the husband has already been 2025:JHHC:12783 2 granted regular bail and the fact that petitioner Nos.1, 2, 3 are the brother in law, father in law and mother in law respectively, I am inclined to enlarge the petitioners on anticipatory bail. 7. Accordingly, this Anticipatory Bail Application stands allowed. The petitioners, above named, are directed to surrender before the learned court below within four weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order and on the event of their surrender or arrest, they shall be released 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 learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Dhanbad, in connection with Govindpur P.S. Case No.126 of 2024, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be a close relative of the petitioners and other should be a resident of State of Jharkhand, having sufficient landed property in his name or in the name of his ancestors in which he is having share and to that effect, he has to file an affidavit before the Trial Court indicating his share in the property. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Prashant. Cp-3