( 2026:JHHC:11730 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 7091 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7091 of 2025 1. Lilawati Devi, W/o Sanjay Prakash Keshari, aged about 48 years, R/o Vill.- Ram Bigha, P.O. & P.S. Hussainabad, Dist.- Palamu, Jharkhand 2. Nandani Kumari Keshari, D/o Sanjay Prakash Keshari, aged about 22 years, R/o Vill.- Ram Bigha, P.O. & P.S. Hussainabad, Dist. Palamu, Jharkhand 3. Sanjay Prakash Keshari, S/o Late Shyam Lal Kesari, aged about 50 years, R/o Vill.- Ram Bigha, P.O. & P.S. Hussainabad, Dist. Palamu, Jharkhand … Petitioners -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioners : Mr. Sheo Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Fahad Allam, A.P.P. ----- 05/22.04.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Hussainabad P.S. Case No.170/2025, registered for the offence under Sections 80(2) and 3(5) of the BNS, pending in the Court of the learned S.D.J.M., Palamau. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 is mother-in-law, petitioner no.2 is sister-in-law and petitioner no.3 is father-in-law of the deceased. He further submits that the informant and his family members were also accompanied in last cremation of the deceased and they also went to the petitioners’ house, however, after 6 days of death, the present FIR has been lodged. He next submits that the husband was present at every point of time. He also submits that the husband has been granted regular bail by the learned trial court. ( 2026:JHHC:11730 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 7091 of 2025 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of demand of dowry. 5. Considering that petitioner no.1 is mother-in-law, petitioner no.2 is sister-in-law and petitioner no.3 is father-in-law of the deceased respectively and the informant and his family members have also accompanied in cremation of the deceased and they also went to petitioners’ house and there is general and omnibus allegation of demand of dowry and the husband has been granted regular bail by the learned trial court and in that view of the matter, the petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned Court within two weeks from today and the learned Court shall release the petitioners on such terms and conditions as the learned Court may deem fit and proper. 6. Accordingly, this application is disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 22nd April, 2026 Ajay/