Sadre AlamversusThe State Of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.3162 of 2026
                    Arising Out of PS. Case No.-117 Year-2025 Thana- SIKTA District- West Champaran
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                 Sadre Alam S/O Hafiz Badhai @ Abdul Hafiz R/O Village- Sirisiya, Police
                 station- Sikta, District- West Champaran

                                                                                   ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                       Versus
           1.    The State of Bihar
           2.    Nazama Khatoon @ Nagma Khatoon W/O Sadre Alam, D/O Md. Hasim
                 R/O Village- Sirisiya, Police station- Sikta, District- West Champaran, At
                 Present R/O Village- Jhumka, Police station- Sikta, District- West
                 Champaran

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Brij Kishor Mishra, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Ajay Kumar No. 2, A.P.P.
                 For the O.P. No. 2       :       Mr. Bhagya Narayan Jha, Advocate
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH
                                       ORAL ORDER

5   22-06-2026                  Earlier, vide order dated 01.04.2026, the matter was

                   referred to the Mediation and Conciliation Centre, Patna High

                   Court, Patna, but as per the Mediator’s Report (flag ‘M’), the

                   mediation has failed.

                                2. Heard learned counsel for the parties.

                                3. The petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered

                   for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 352,

                   3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Sections 3/4 of the

                   Dowry Prohibition Act.

                                4. As per prosecution case, marriage of informant was

                   solemnized with this petitioner in the year 2019. Thereafter, it is
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          alleged that informant was subjected to torture and cruelty due

          to non-fulfillment of demand of dowry.

                       5. Learned counsel for the petitioner, while denying

          the allegations levelled against him, submits that petitioner, who

          is husband of the informant, is ready to keep her with honour

          and safety. Besides this, petitioner is ready to give Rs. 5000/-per

          month to the informant by way of temporary relief/solace,

          starting from this month, subject to any order passed in

          matrimonial, maintenance or connected proceedings.

                       6. In view of the aforesaid undertaking of learned

          counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is ready to give Rs.

          5000/- per month to the informant by way of temporary

          relief/solace, starting from this month, this anticipatory bail

          application is allowed.

                       7. Let the above-named petitioner, in the event of

          arrest/surrender within a period of eight weeks from today, be

          enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten

          thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the

          satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Bettiah,

          West Champaran in connection with Sikta P. S. Case No. 117 of

          2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2)

          of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita as well as on the
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                        following conditions:-

                                     ‘(1) Informant would file an affidavit before the court

                        below and bring on record her savings bank account number for

                        its communication to the petitioner.

                                     (2)    Petitioner       would          deposit   the   aforesaid

                        maintenance amount per month in the savings bank account of

                        the informant.

                                     (3) In case, the petitioner fails to deposit the

                        maintenance amount for two consecutive months, the court

                        below would be at liberty to cancel the bail-bond.

                                     (4) The aforementioned payment will be subject to

                        any order passed in matrimonial, maintenance or connected

                        proceedings. The present order, in no way, will preclude the

                        parties to resolve the issue otherwise.’



                                              (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J)
Navya/-

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