Sikinder Mahto @ Sikinder Kushwaha @ Sikendra Kushwaha v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: anticipatory bail; Section 438 CrPC; Section 438(2) CrPC conditions; IPC Sections 498A, 504, 506, 365 and 34; dowry demand; torture and harassment for dowry; missing wife traced from 19.10.2021; compromise between parties; compromise petition before trial court; Annexure-P/2; clean antecedents; bail-bond Rs. 10,000 with two like sureties; JMFC Sikrahana at Dhaka, East Champaran; Kundwa Chainpur P.S. Case No. 257 of 2021; Thana Kundwachainpur; East Champaran; Patna High Court Criminal Miscellaneous No. 74863 of 2024; Justice Prabhat Kumar Singh; decision dated 18-01-2025; petitioner Sikinder Mahto @ Sikinder Kushwaha @ Sikendra Kushwaha; State of Bihar; counsel Rajeev Ranjan; APP Braj Kishore Pd.
What did the court decide?
Anticipatory bail granted: in the event of arrest or surrender within eight weeks from 18-01-2025, the petitioner is to be enlarged on bail on furnishing a bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sikrahana at Dhaka, East Champaran, in connection with Kundwa Chainpur P.S. Case No. 257 of 2021, subject to the conditions under Section 438(2) CrPC.