Suman DeviversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.39218 of 2026
                      Arising Out of PS. Case No.-216 Year-2026 Thana- VAISHALI District- Vaishali
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                 Suman Devi W/O Chandan Kumar Resident of Village-Mataiyan, Post Office-
                 Madhopur Ram, Police Station-Vaishali, District-Vaishali.
                                                                                ... ... Petitioner
                                                  Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                                         ... ... Opposite Party
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr.Akshay Tripathi, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr.Anil Kumar Singh, No.1, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   18-06-2026               Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   APP for the State.

                             2. The accused-petitioner, named in the F.I.R., is

                   apprehending her arrest in connection with Vaishali (Belsar

                   O.P.) P.S. Case No. 216 of 2026 registered for the offences

                   punishable under Sections 80 & 3(5) of the Bhartiya Nyay

                   Sanhita, 2023 (in short, the ‘B.N.S.’) and section 3 & 4 of

                   the Dowry Prohibition Act.

                             3. The allegation against the petitioner is to cause

                   death of the sister of the informant along with other co-

                   accused persons/family members due to non-fulfillment of

                   demand of dowry as raised for cash of Rs. 10 Lakhs.

                             4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the

                   petitioner submitted that petitioner, who is the mother of
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          husband of the deceased, living separately having no

          connection with daily and domestic affairs of the deceased

          and her husband. It is submitted that petitioner was

          implicated only being mother-in-law.

                   5. Arguing further, it is submitted that post-mortem

          report nowhere suggest any visible physical injury on the

          body of the deceased except ligature mark, which

          categorically suggest that the deceased sister of the

          informant was not physically assaulted soon before the

          occurrence.

                   6. It is pointed out that out of temperamental issues,

          the sister of the informant committed suicide by hanging

          herself, which is also corroborating from post-mortem

          report. Petitioner claimed clean antecedent.

                   7. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer of

          anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

                   8. In view of the aforesaid factual submissions and

          by taking note of the fact as petitioner prima facie

          implicated with the present crime in question being mother-

          in-law, who is also a lady having clean antecedent, coupled

          with the fact that petitioner claims to live separately with
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                     the deceased and her husband, accordingly, above-named

                     petitioner, in the event of her arrest/surrender within a

                     period of four weeks from this order, is directed to be

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

                     (ten thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount

                     each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate - 1 st

                     Class, Vaishali at Hajipur/concerned court in connection

                     with Vaishali P.S. Case No. 216 of 2026, subject to the

                     conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the

                     Cr.P.C/Section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha

                     Sanhita (in short “B.N.S.S.”).


                                                                   (Chandra Shekhar Jha, J)
Rajeev/-

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