IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.30556 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-165 Year-2025 Thana- CHANPATIA District- West Champaran ====================================================== Neha Devi S/o Gulshan Kumar, D/o Late Jagdish Raut D/o R/o Village - Chanpatiya, Railway Station Road, P.S. - Chanpatiya, District - West Champaran. At present R/o Village - Gauripur, P.S. - Balthar, Dist. - West Champaran, as per FIR(At present Address). ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Pandey For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ram Anurag Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 2 07-05-2026 1. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. This application, for grant of anticipatory bail, arises out of Chanpatiya Police Station Case No. 165 of 2025, dated 24.08.2025, disclosing offences under Sections 80(2)/3(5) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita. 3. That the prosecution case, in brief, is that on 24.08.2025 at about 5:00 A.M., the informant received information that his daughter, Pooja Devi, had been killed by her in- laws at her matrimonial home. Upon receiving the information, the informant, along with his family members, went to the matrimonial house of the deceased and neither found the dead body of his daughter nor the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.30556 of 2026(2) dt.07-05-2026 2/3 deceased’s in-laws at the house. It has further been alleged that all the accused persons, including the petitioner, have killed the informant’s daughter by strangulating her and placed her dead body on railway track. Prior to the occurrence, the deceased was assaulted and threatened to kill on several occasions. The marriage of the deceased was solemnized in the year 2022 and out of the wedlock one son was born. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is married Nanad (sister-in-law) of the deceased and has not committed any offence in the manner alleged. The petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case due to the fact that entire family members of the deceased’s husband has been made accused alleging general and omnibus allegations. He next submits that the the deceased husband is in custody and had no concern either with him or his deceased wife inasmuch as she lives separately in mess and property at her matrimonial home. He further submits that similarly situated co- accused persons, namely, Mukesh Dom @ Mukesh Raut and Munna Malik @ Munna Raut, have been granted anticipatory bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.30556 of 2026(2) dt.07-05-2026 3/3 Cr. Misc. No. 29581 of 2026. 5. Having regard to the submissions made on behalf of the parties and taking into consideration the fact that petitioner is married Nanad of the deceased having general and omnibus allegation and similarly situated co- accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court, I am inclined to grant the petitioner privilege of anticipatory bail. 6. This application is, accordingly, allowed. 7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Bettiah, West Champaran, in connection with Chanpatiya Police Station Case No. 165 of 2025, subject to the condition laid down under Section 482 (2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. ashwani/- (Anil Kumar Sinha, J) U T