IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.15019 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-340 Year-2025 Thana- HASPURA District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Savitri Devi @ Mehadiya Waali Wife of Ritunjay Sharma Resident of Village- Tilakpur PS -Haspura District -Aurangabad Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Arun Kumar, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Ms. Renuka Ratnakar, APP For the Informant : Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Adv. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 5 17-06-2026 Heard the learned Advocate for the petitioner, learned Advocate for the informant and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in connection with Haspura P.S. Case No. 340 of 2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 80(2), 238 and 3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023. 3. The marriage of the daughter of the informant was solemnized with son of the petitioner. On 23.11.2025, the informant received an information on his mobile that the health condition of his daughter is not proper and later on, he came to know that his daughter has been done to death. On the aforesaid information, when the informant rushed to the house, where her Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.15019 of 2026(5) dt.17-06-2026 2/3 daughter was residing, he found that the dead body was kept aside and accused persons have fled away. 4. Learned Advocate for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner is none-else but the mother-in-law of the deceased. It is urged that the deceased was under depression on account of some reasons and on the fateful day, because of some dispute between husband and wife, she committed suicide by hanging herself, which fact also stands corroborated by the post- mortem report. It is the specific contention of the petitioner that she had been residing separately with the deceased and her husband and, moreover, there is no specific allegation with regard to any demand of dowry or any torture. 5. On the other hand, learned Advocate for the State as well as the learned Advocate for the informant opposed the pre-arrest bail application and submits that the marriage was solemnized on 03.02.2022 and just within four years, she was done to death on account of non fulfillment of the demand of dowry. Hence, the dowry death cannot be ruled out. 6. Having considered the submissions advanced by learned Advocate for the respective parties and taking note of the fact that the petitioner is mother-in-law and the post-mortem report reveals that there is no external injuries over the body of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.15019 of 2026(5) dt.17-06-2026 3/3 the deceased, besides the submission of the learned Advocate for the petitioner that the petitioner had been residing separately with the deceased and her husband and she was under depression because of the reasons disclosed in the bail application, let the petitioner above named be released on bail, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Aurangabad in connection with Haspura P.S. Case No. 340 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 with the further condition that one of the bailors shall be the own/close family members of the petitioner. shivank/- (Harish Kumar, J) U T