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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.66749 of 2025

Arising Out of PS. Case No.-101 Year-2024 Thana- Pothia District- Katihar

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Siddhant Kumar S/o Bundelal Pandit R/o Mohalla- Harda Bajar, P.S.- Harda,

District- Purnea

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar

... ... Opposite Party/s

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Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Vijay Shankar Shrivastava, Advocate

For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Binod Kumar, APP

For the Informant : Mr. Mukesh Kumar Jha, Advocate

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA

ORAL ORDER

3 09-02-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned

A.P.P. for the State and the learned counsel appearing on behalf

of the informant.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case

registered for the offences punishable under Sections 80(2) and

61 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant

alleges that his daughter was married to Ajit on 1-3-2023, after

marriage the accused persons including the petitioner started

torturing his daughter for non-fulfillment of dowry demand of a

motorcycle and Rs. 10 lakhs for purchasing land, further the

victim also disclosed that Ajit is having an extra marital affairs

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with Ganga (petitioner) and when the victim protested the

relationship, Ajit threatened that if demand is not met, he will

marry Ganga, further Ajit on 26-10- 2024 informed from an

unknown number that victim died, accordingly he along with

the family members reached the place of occurrence and found

the dead body of the victim lying inside a room with multiple

injury marks and the accused persons had fled.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the

informant. It is next submitted that from perusal of the

allegations as alleged in the FIR, it would manifest that

informant is not an eye witness to the occurrence nor petitioner

is named in the FIR and his name transpired during the course

of investigation that he was in a relationship with the deceased.

It is submitted that petitioner and the deceased were known

from before, but were not in a relationship nor the FIR even

remotely discloses that petitioner in any manner was involved in

the occurrence. It is next submitted that even presuming what

has been alleged is true without admitting then petitioner cannot

be alleged to have abetted the offence. It is further submitted

that Ganga Kumari @ Ganga had approached this Court seeking

anticipatory bail by filing Criminal Miscellaneous No. 43853 of

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2025 and the same was allowed by an order dated 09.02.2026.

It is also submitted that petitioner will not abscond rather will

cooperate in the investigation to prove his innocence.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the

anticipatory bail application, but then learned counsel appearing

on behalf of the informant submits that petitioner has been

falsely implicated in the instant case, as deceased was never in a

relationship with the petitioner.

6. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties

and considering the submissions made by the learned counsel

appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the learned counsel

appearing on behalf of the informant, the petitioner above-

named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned

trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released

on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/-

(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount

each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case

is pending/successor court in connection with Pothiya Katihar

P.S. Case No. 101 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid

do