IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.29799 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-8 Year-2025 Thana- Ghogha District- Bhagalpur ====================================================== 1. Rubi Devi W/O Niranjan Mandal R/O Vill.- Kodwar, P.o. and P.s.- Ghogha, Dist.- Bhagalpur 2. Niranjan Mandal @ Niranjan Kumar S/O Late Ghanshyam Mandal R/O Vill.- Kodwar, P.o. and P.s.- Ghogha, Dist.- Bhagalpur 3. Pappu Mandal @ Pappu Kumar Mandal S/O Late Ghanshyam Mandal R/O Vill.- Kodwar, P.o. and P.s.- Ghogha, Dist.- Bhagalpur ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Bijendra Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Anita Kumari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 2 14-05-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Ghogha P.S. Case No. 08 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 85, 80, 351(4), 3(5) of B.N.S., 2023 and Sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. 3. As per prosecution case, petitioners and others are said to have concertedly committed the murder of informant’s daughter for the non fulfillment of demand of dowry. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29799 of 2025(2) dt.14-05-2025 2/3 the deceased and the co-accused Manish Kumar were in love relationship since many years. He further submits that petitioner nos. 1, 2 and 3 are mother-in-law (saas), father-in-law (sasur) and uncle father-in-law (chaha sasur) of the deceased respectively and they are living separately from the family of the deceased. He further submits that petitioners have no say in the family affairs of the deceased. He further submits that husband of the deceased co-accused Manish Kumar is in custody since 19.01.2025. He further submits that there is inordinate delay of six days in lodging the FIR and no plausible explanation has been given by the informant regarding the said delay. He further submits that no specific allegations are attributed against the petitioners rather the allegation are general and omnibus in nature. Petitioners are innocent and have committed no offence as alleged in the FIR and they have falsely been implicated in this case. Petitioners bear no criminal antecedent. 5. The learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners. 6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, keeping in view clean antecedent of petitioners, petitioners have no say in family affairs of the deceased, Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29799 of 2025(2) dt.14-05-2025 3/3 argument advanced on behalf of both sides and also taking into consideration the material available on record, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., VIII, Bhagalpur in connection with Ghogha P.S. Case No. 08 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS. 7. The application stands allowed. alok/- (Alok Kumar Pandey, J) U T