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2026 DAILYLAW 27909 (PAT)

Munakiya Devi v. The State of Bihar

CR. MISC./49843/2026 · 2026-07-29

Satyavrat Verma

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.49843 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-124 Year-2026 Thana- DULHIN BAZAR District- Patna ====================================================== Munakiya Devi W/o Mehi Lal Manjhi Resident of Village - Ainkhan, P.S - Dulhin Bazar, District - Patna ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Ramanuj Tiwary For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Anil Prasad Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 29-07-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 117(2), 109, 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the BNS. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case and is a woman and the informant alleges that her goats were stolen, thus informant was abusing when Mehi Lal Manjhi assaulted her by rod causing injury on head and petitioner caught her hand and thereafter her husband (Mehi Lal Manjhi) assaulted the informant causing injury on head requiring seven stitches. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.49843 of 2026(2) dt.29-07-2026 2/2 petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case being wife of Mehi Lal Manjhi. It is further submitted that even presuming what has been alleged is true without admitting then the allegation against the petitioner is of assaulting the informant on hand i.e. a non-vital part of the body. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and taking into consideration the fact that petitioner is a woman, let the petitioner, above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Trial Court where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Dulhin Bazar P.S. Case No. 124 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S. vikram/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T