2025:JHHC:17528 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 974 of 2025 ------ 1. Nawsaba Khatoon @ Nausaba Khatoon, aged about 32 years wife of Bablu Ansari @ Bablu Mian resident of village Rahmat Nagar Sisai P.O. and Police station-Gumla, District-Gumla 2. Nikhat Pravin aged about 27 years wife of Abdul Gani resident of village Indira, P.O. and police station-Jarba, District- Hazaribagh … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … … Opposite Party ------ CORAM: SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Rajesh Kr. Singh, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Achinto Sen, A.P.P. ----- 03/ 02.07.2025 1. Heard the parties. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Section 482 and 484 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioners apprehending their arrest for offences registered under Sections 341, 323, 304(B), 504, 34 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail. 4. The petitioner is an accused for allegedly committing an offence under Section 304(B) of the Indian Penal Code. The petitioners are none but the married sister-in-law of the deceased. Though the deceased died of unnatural death (strangulation) within few years of marriage and there is an allegation of demand of dowry, yet the fact which cannot be lost sight of that these petitioners are the married sister-in-law and they were residing in their matrimonial house separately i.e. in Gumla and Hazaribag and the place of occurrence is at Chatra. 2025:JHHC:17528 2 5. Considering the fact that the petitioners are married sister-in-law residing in their respective matrimonial house, this Anticipatory Bail Application stands allowed. The petitioner above named, is 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.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class Chatra, in connection with Rajpur P.S. Case No. 32 of 2021, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be a close relative of the petitioner 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.) Rashmi/ Cp-2