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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
ANANDA SEN
Mannu Tudu, S/o Late Arjun Manjhi – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
ANANDA SEN, J.
Heard, learned counsel for the parties.
2. The present anticipatory bail application under sections 482 and 484 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending his arrest for the offences registered under Sections 302 r/w Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code pending in the court of the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Hazaribag, in connection with the Charhi P.S. Case No. 32 of 2024.
3. The prosecution case is based on the written report submitted by the informant, Prabhu Dayal Manjhi, the father of the deceased, Malti Hansda. According to the informant, his daughter was married to the petitioner, Mannu Tudu, in the year 2013. Despite the marriage subsisting, Mannu Tudu allegedly solemnized a second marriage with one Reena Hembrom. It is further alleged that both the petitioner and Reena Hembrom subjected the deceased to regular physical abuse and harassment over demands for dowry. On 28.04.2024, at around 12:30 PM, the informant received information about his daughter’s death. Upon reaching her matrimonial home, he found the door and windows open, with a table still positioned under her feet and a visi
The court granted anticipatory bail due to lack of prima facie evidence of abetment in a case involving allegations of dowry harassment and unnatural death.
The court ruled that allegations of dowry demand and torture, combined with the circumstances of an unnatural death, justify the presumption of guilt against the in-laws, warranting the denial of ant....
The court emphasized the importance of specific instances and evidence in allegations of harassment and referred to the settled law for the charge under Section 306 of the IPC.
Anticipatory bail is denied due to serious allegations of deceitful sexual conduct, emphasizing the nature and gravity of the charges involved.
It does not lay down that the anticipatory bail has to be given, irrespective of the role attributable to an accused in the commission of the offence.
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