IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13170 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-7 Year-2024 Thana- CHAUSA District- Madhepura ====================================================== 1. Navin Sharma S/o Late Anuplal Sharma R/o Village- Tulsipur, P.S.- Kharik Bazar, District- Bhagalpur 2. Tetri Devi @ Anita Sharma W/o Navin Sharma R/o Village- Tulsipur, P.S.- Kharik Bazar, District- Bhagalpur 3. Sonali Devi @ Sonli Kumari @ Sonali Kumari D/o Navin Sharma and W/o Vilasli Kumar Verma R/o Village- Tulsipur, P.S.- Kharik Bazar, District- Bhagalpur 4. Abhishek Kumar @ Sonu S/o Navin Sharma R/o Village- Tulsipur, P.S.- Kharik Bazar, District- Bhagalpur 5. Gulsan Kumar @ Golu S/o Navin Sharma R/o Village- Tulsipur, P.S.- Kharik Bazar, District- Bhagalpur 6. Monu Kumar S/o Navin Sharma R/o Village- Tulsipur, P.S.- Kharik Bazar, District- Bhagalpur 7. Umesh Sharma S/o Late Anuplal Sharma R/o Village- Tulsipur, P.S.- Kharik Bazar, District- Bhagalpur ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the State : Mr.Pradeep Narain Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 2 11-03-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State. 2. In the present case, the petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Chausa P.S. Case Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13170 of 2026(2) dt.11-03-2026 2/4 No. 07 of 2024 registered for the offences under Sections 341, 323, 498A, 504/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. 3. As per prosecution case, the informant has been married with the co-accused son of petitioner nos. 1 and 2. The allegation against the petitioners and co-accused husband of the informant is that they have been demanding Rs.3,00,000/- in dowry and when this demand was not met, snatching all the belongings of the informant, they drove her out from the matrimonial home. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are in-laws of the informant and they are innocent and have been falsely implicated in this case. The present case has been lodged only to harass the petitioners. The allegations are general and omnibus. The petitioners never demanded any dowry and never tortured the informant for non- fulfillment of this demand. The petitioners are parents-in-law, married sister-in-law (Nanad), brothers-in-law (Dewar) and also the elder brother of petitioner no. 1. They lived separately from the informant and her husband. They are having no criminal antecedent. 5. Learned APP opposes the submission made on Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13170 of 2026(2) dt.11-03-2026 3/4 behalf of the petitioners. Learned APP submits that the allegation has been levelled against the petitioners as well as co- accused husband of the informant for demand of dowry and torture related to such demand. 6. Having regard to the facts and circumstances and submissions made on behalf of the parties and considering the relationship of the petitioners with the informant and further considering the general and non-specific nature of allegation and also considering the possibility of false implication, let the petitioners above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the court concerned within a period of eight weeks from today, be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Udakishunganj, District - Madhepura/concerned court in connection with Chausa P.S. Case No. 07 of 2024, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S. and other following conditions: (i) One of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioners. (ii) The petitioners will remain present on each and every date fixed by the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13170 of 2026(2) dt.11-03-2026 4/4 court below, if so required by the learned trial court. DKS/- (Arun Kumar Jha, J) U T