Santosh Gupta @ Santosh Kumar GuptaversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                             CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.82554 of 2025
                  Arising Out of PS. Case No.-228 Year-2022 Thana- BHOJPUR COMPLAINT CASE Dis-
                                                      trict- Bhojpur
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                 Santosh Gupta @ Santosh Kumar Gupta S/O Shiv Shankar Gupta @ Santosh
                 Shiv Shankar Gupta Resident of Village- Sikarhatta Kala, P.S.- Sikarhatta,
                 District- Bhojpur

                                                                             ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                    Versus
           1.    The State of Bihar
           2.    Sapana Kumari W/O Santosh Gupta @ Santosh Kumar Gupta Resident of
                 Village- Sikarhatta, P.S.- Sikarhatta, District- Bhojpur

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s         :       Mr.Ajay Kumar Singh
                 For the Opposite Party/s     :       Mr.Arun Kumar Singh
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA
                                       ORAL ORDER

8   07-05-2026                  1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned

                   counsel for the complainant - Opposite Party No. 2 and learned

                   Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

                                2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection

                   with Complaint Case No. 228(C) of 2022 registered for the

                   offence punishable under Section 498(A), 406, 313, 315, 34 of

                   the I.P.C. and Section 3, 4 of the D.P. Act.

                                3. The prosecution case, as per the complaint petition,

                   is that the marriage of the complainant was solemnized with the

                   petitioner according to Hindu rites and rituals on 19.05.2015

                   and after sometime the petitioner and the in-laws started

                   demanding one motorcycle and a gold chain as dowry and due
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          to non fulfillment of the said demand, the petitioner and other

          family members tortured the complainant- Opposite Party No. 2

          physically as well as mentally and finally ousted the

          complainant from her matrimonial home.

                       4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that peti-

          tioner has not committed any offence in the manner alleged and

          he has falsely been implicated in this case. However, without

          prejudice to the right and contention of the petitioner and in

          order to maintain harmony in the family, the petitioner

          undertakes to pay a sum of Rs. 5,000/- per month to the

          complainant- Opposite Party No. 2 as “living cost” subject to

          the final outcome of the present case as well as matrimonial

          case, if any, pending and / or decided between the parties.

                       5. Learned counsel for the complainant / Opposite

          Party No. 2 submits that the complainant / Opposite Party No. 2

          is at the verge of starvation having no source of income and

          accepts the offer so made by the petitioner and submits that the

          petitioner may be directed to deposit the said amount of

          Rs. 5,000/- per month in the bank account of the complainant /

          Opposite Party No. 2, details of which shall be furnished by

          learned counsel for the Opposite Party No. 2 to learned counsel

          for the petitioner within ten days from today.
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                                    6. After having heard learned counsel for the parties

                       and taking into consideration the materials on record and the

                       fact that offer made by the petitioner has been accepted by the

                       complainant-Opposite Party No. 2, as such, I am inclined to

                       grant privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

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

                       arrest / surrender before the learned court below within a period

                       of six weeks from today be released on anticipatory bail on

                       furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two

                       sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned

                       C.J.M. Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Complaint Case No.

                       228(C) of 2022 subject to the condition as laid down under

                       Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S. as well as the following

                       condition:-

                                    (i) that the petitioner shall deposit a sum of

                              Rs. 5,000/- per month in bank account of the

                              Opposite Party No. 2 positively by the 7th day of

                              every month starting from the month of June, 2026.



                                                (Anil Kumar Sinha, J)
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