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Patna High Court, CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.63185 of 2025 (arising out of Mahua P.S. Case No.-139, Year 2024, Thana Mahua, District Vaishali), oral order dated 10-10-2025 by Ashok Kumar Pandey, J.: regular bail ALLOWED to petitioner Santosh Paswan in a case under Sections 302 & 201/34 of the Indian Penal Code. Prosecution alleges the informant's daughter Gunjan Kumari, married to the petitioner in 2015, faced dowry demands (motorcycle and Rs.1,00,000/- cash) and cruelty, and that on 19.03.2024 her in-laws and others killed and concealed the dead body. Earlier bail was rejected by this Court on 20.01.2025 with liberty to renew after six months; a trial-court report showed only charges framed; petitioner in custody since 11.07.2024; defence contended main thrust of FIR allegations was against the in-laws and the petitioner's sole attributed role was hatching the plan. Conditions: co-operate in trial and appear as required; bail bond Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur. Counsel: Priyesh Kumar (petitioner); Narendra Kumar Singh, APP (State). No precedents cited.