CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S. B. PD. SINGH ORAL ORDER

2 16-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of anticipatory bail in connection with Siwan Mahila P. S. Case No. 58 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 69, 318(2) and 3(5) of BNS.

3. As per the F.I.R., prosecution case is that the informant's marriage was fixed with Gurfan Khan. After the engagement, Gurfan Khan’s mother, Shubhtara Khanam (petitioner), took Rs. 60,000/- in cash as advance, and the marriage was initially fixed for February 2024, but was postponed to 2025 due to the death of Gurfan Khan’s father. In the meantime, Gurfan Khan, on the false assurance of marriage, established physical relationship with the informant, took another Rs. 50,000/- in his name. It is further alleged that on 07.04.2025 Gurfan Khan and his mother refused to solemnize the marriage with informant and ultimately cheated about Rs.

1,10,000/- from the informant.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is quite innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. It is submitted that the petitioner had no role in deciding the marr