2026:JHHC:1153 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 149 of 2026 ---- 1.Banku Ramani @ Bangat Ramani, aged about 25 years, son of Nakul Ramani 2.Sarswati Kumari @ Bangat Ramani ki wife, aged about 23 years, wife of Bangat Ramani 3.Lago Devi @ Ranjit Ramani ki wife, aged about 37 years, wife of Ranjit Ramani, All are residents of Village Bhojpur, PO Bhojpur, PS Devipur, District Deoghar, Jharkhand .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. A.K. Choudhary, Advocate For the State :- Mr Bishwambhar Shastri, Advocate ---- 2/15.01.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Devipur P.S. Case No.88 of 2025, for offence registered under sections 126(2), 115(2), 352, 80(2) and 3(5) of BNS, 2023 and sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Deoghar. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 is elder brother in law and petitioner no.2 is elder sister in law of the deceased. He further submits that she has committed suicide by way of hanging herself. He next submits that husband of the deceased has already been taken into custody. He next submits that the petitioners are residing separately in different village. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that due 2026:JHHC:1153 2 to instigation, the deceased has committed suicide. 5. Looking to the contents of the FIR it is not clear as to how these petitioners have instigated the deceased to take such step and the petitioner nos. 1 and 2 are brother in law and sister in law respectively of the deceased and the husband of the deceased has already been taken into custody, and in that view of the matter, the petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court concerned within two weeks from today and the learned court shall release the petitioners on such terms and conditions as well as sureties as the learned court may deem fit and proper. 6. This petition being A.B.A. No.149 of 2026 is dispose of. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 15.01.2026 SI/