2025:JHHC:19226 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.1917 of 2025 ------ 1.Md. Safikul Sheikh, son of Tajruddin Shekh 2.Momina Bibi, wife of Tajruddin Shekh 3.Tajruddin Sheikh, son of late Gafur Shekh All residents of village Dakshin Sarfarajaganj, Gohalbari, PO Phudkipurand PS, Radhanagar, district Sahibganj … … Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand. … … Opposite Party(s) ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Raja Ravi Shekhar Singh, Advocate. (through V.C.) For the State : Mr. S. K. Srivastava, A.P.P. ----- 04/ 15.07.2025 Mr. Raja Ravi Shekhar Singh, the learned counsel for the petitioners appears through virtual mode. He has no complaint regarding the quality and clarity of video and audio. 2. Heard the parties. 3. This anticipatory bail application under Sections 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 80/3(5)/61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 4. It is alleged that the daughter-in-law of petitioner nos. 2 and 3 has committed suicide. There is an allegation that there was demand of dowry and torture. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the entire allegation is false as the deceased was residing in the house of the informant and these petitioners and others had brought her to her in-law’s house because of marriage of son of petitioner no. 1. He submits that as she was not agreeable to go to her matrimonial house, she committed suicide. He further submits that the daughter of the deceased who was sleeping with the deceased stated that at night when she woke she found her mother hanging. 2025:JHHC:19226 2 6. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail and submits that the deceased died in the house of these petitioners but on query after going through the case-diary admits that there is no allegation of any torture and further submits that in the case diary paragraph nos. 41, 47 and 48 contains the statement of the witnesses who stated that they are related to deceased as aunt of the deceased and the deceased was not at all agreeable to go to her matrimonial home. 7. Considering the aforesaid submission of the learned APP and also the fact that the deceased died due to hanging and that there is no injury mark on the body of the deceased, this Court finds it a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 8. 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.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Rajmahal, in connection with Radhanagar P.S. Case No.178 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/her name or in the name of his/her ancestors in which he/she is having share and to that effect, he/she has to file an affidavit before the Trial Court indicating his/her share in the property. 9. 9. Further with the condition that the petitioners will appear before the investigating officer once in every 15 days and cooperate in the investigation. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Tanuj/Cp-3