IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.11645 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-481 Year-2011 Thana- MUNGER COMPLAINT CASE District- Munger ====================================================== 1. Mantun Kumar @ Mantun Mandal @ Mantun Rai S/o- Late Nandlal Mandal R/v- Bobil Ps- Beldaur Dist- Khagaria, P/A- Phulwariya Deorhi Ps- Beldaur Dist- Khagaria 2. Jay Kishhore Mandal S/o- Late Nandlal Mandal R/v- Bobil Ps- Beldaur Dist- Khagaria, P/A- Phulwariya Deorhi Ps- Beldaur Dist- Khagaria 3. Bimla Devi W/o- Late Nandlal Mandal R/v- Bobil Ps- Beldaur Dist- Khagaria ... ... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. Smt. Ruby Kumari W/o- Mantun Kumar, D/o- Sarveshwar Mahto R/v- Lallu Pokhar PS- Kasim Bazar Dist- Munger ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioners : Mr. Aditya Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Pushpa Sinha, APP For the OP-2 : NONE ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 5 23-07-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. Despite valid service of notice, nobody appears on behalf of opposite party no. 2. 2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a complaint case punishable for the offence under Sections 498-A, 307, 323, 504 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. 3. Allegation against petitioners is of matrimonial cruelty and demand for dowry. 4. While denying the allegations made in the complaint petition, learned counsel for the petitioners submits that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11645 of 2026(5) dt.23-07-2026 2/2 petitioners have been falsely implicated in this case. At no point of time, petitioners demanded any dowry or committed torture with opposite party no. 2. Petitioner no. 1 is husband, petitioner no. 2 is brother-in-law and petitioner no. 3 is mother- in-law of the complainant. As a matter of fact, the complainant solemnized second marriage with another boy and out of the wedlock, two children have been born. Moreover, the case is triable by the learned Magistrate. The petitioner has further relied upon the judgment of this Court in the case of Md. Naimul Haque Ansari @ Naimul Haque Ansari & Ors. Vs. The State of Bihar, reported in 2006(3) PLJR 182. 5. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of eight weeks from today, let this petitioners, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Munger in connection with Complaint Case No. 481C/2011, subject to the conditions, as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure/ Section 482 of the B.N.S.S., 2023. anay (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) U T