Chandra Shekhar Kuahwaha @ Chandra Shekhar Kushwaha @ Chandrashekhar v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court, Criminal Miscellaneous No. 21797 of 2024, decided 26-10-2024 by Justice Prabhat Kumar Singh. Petitioner Chandra Shekhar Kuahwaha @ Chandra Shekhar Kushwaha sought pre-arrest bail arising out of PS Case No. 476 of 2023, Thana Chapra Mufasil, District Saran, registered under Section 498A IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act on allegations of matrimonial cruelty and dowry demand by informant/wife Sonali Nanda (Opposite Party No. 2). Anticipatory bail allowed conditioned on petitioner undertaking to pay Rs. 3,000/- per month maintenance into her bank account; bail bond Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties; Section 438(2) CrPC conditions; bail cancellable on two consecutive months' default. Keywords: anticipatory bail Patna, conditional bail maintenance deposit, dowry case bail condition, cancelling bail bond on maintenance default.
What did the court decide?
Anticipatory bail granted: petitioner to be enlarged on bail in the event of arrest/surrender within eight weeks, on bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra, in connection with Mufasil P.S. Case No. 476 of 2023, subject to Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. conditions and further conditions (A)-(D), including deposit of Rs. 3,000/- per month maintenance into the informant's savings bank account.