IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.2881 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-182 Year-2023 Thana- VIDYAPATINAGAR District- Samastipur ====================================================== Ajit @ Ajit Sharma Son of Prakash Sharma Resident of village- Hari Krishna Colony Thakur Path, Madhopur Susta, PS-Muzaffarpur Sadar, Dist- Muzaffarpur at present residing of Palli Street, Near Hanuman Temple, Malkapuran, Ps- Nallapadu Dist- Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh ... ... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. Rozi Kumari Wife of Ajit Sharma village- and Po- Badhauna, Ps- Vidyapati Nagar, Dist- Samastipur, at P/A- Residing at C/o- senior Superintendent of Police, rohtas, Sasaram ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Adv For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ramesh Chandra, APP For the Informant : Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Adv ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 3 09-05-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Vidhyapati Nagar P.S. Case No. 182 of 2023, registered for the offence punishable under Sections 498A and 500 of the I.P.C. read with Section 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act and Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act. 3. The case of the prosecution, in short, is that the informant alleged that the petitioner has fraudulently married Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2881 of 2025(3) dt.09-05-2025 2/3 her where he was given Rs. 15 lacs, gold silver ornaments and other household items. After marriage, the informant came to know that her husband is a liquor drink and he started torturing her physically and mentally. When the informant went for her training, her husband forced her for meeting and to do long talk on phone. He in-laws tortured her family members for dowry and demanded a sum of Rs. 50 lacs and threatened to burn and kill the informant. An objectionable video of the informant has also been uploaded on a social networking site. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case. The petitioner is the husband of the informant. He further submits that the entire case is false and fabricated and there is no alleged demand of dowry. It is further submitted that the petitioner has never tortured the informant and there is no specific allegation against the petitioner. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer of anticipatory bail. 6. The serious nature of the allegation against the petitioner is that he has tortured the informant for the sake of dowry and also on 06.11.2023, he is alleged to have uploaded an objectionable video of the informant on facebook. Under these Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2881 of 2025(3) dt.09-05-2025 3/3 circumstances, this Court is not inclined to grant privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 7. Accordingly, the present anticipatory bail application stands rejected. kiran/- (Alok Kumar Sinha, J) U T