MD Muslim Ansari v. the State of Jharkhand
Case brief
What is this about?
Anticipatory bail granted, Jharkhand High Court, Ranchi; A.B.A. No. 1207 of 2025; neutral citation 2025:JHHC:18560; judge Ananda Sen; Sections 482 and 484 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS); Sections 304-B (dowry death) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) Indian Penal Code; Panki P.S. Case No. 162 of 2023; Chief Judicial Magistrate, Palamau; Additional Sessions Judge, Palamau; husband Hasibullah Ansari tried and acquitted; witnesses turned hostile; FIR dowry demand motorcycle or Rs. 1.50 lakh; death on 09.12.2023; petitioners Md. Muslim Ansari, Mobina Bibi @Hako Bibi, Samina Bibi; counsel Abhay Kumar Chaturvedy (petitions), Mahua Palit A.P.P. (State); surrender within four weeks; bail bonds Rs. 10,000 each; two sureties of like amount; close-relative and Jharkhand-resident-with-landed-property surety conditions; affidavit of property share; application allowed.
What did the court decide?
Anticipatory bail granted to all three petitioners: to surrender before the Court concerned within four weeks and, upon surrender and/or arrest, to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Palamau in Panki P.S. Case No. 162 of 2023, subject to one bailer being a close relative of the petitioners and the other a resident of Jharkhand with sufficient landed property (own or ancestral, with share evidenced by affidavit filed before the Trial Court).