Patna High Court
CR. MISC./59256/2026 of Ram Naresh Mahto Vs The State of Bihar on 19 August 2026
COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.59256 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-65 Year-2026 Thana- DERNI BAZAR District- Saran ====================================================== 1. Ram Naresh Mahto son of Late Shankar Mahto Resident of village- Khanua Balahan, Ps- Derni,
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.59256 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-65 Year-2026 Thana- DERNI BAZAR District- Saran ======================================================
1.
Ram Naresh Mahto son of Late Shankar Mahto Resident of village- Khanua Balahan, Ps- Derni, Dist- Saran
2.
Sumitra Devi @ Samitri Devi wife of Ram Naresh Mahto Resident of village- Khanua Balahan, Ps- Derni, Dist- Saran
... ... Petitioners
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party
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Appearance :
For the Petitioners
:
Mr. Ravi Prakash, Adv.
For the Opposite Party
:
Mr. Yogendra Kumar, APP
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA
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19-08-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The accused/petitioners are named in the FIR and apprehending their arrest in connection with Derni P.S. Case No.65 of 2026 registered under Sections 103(1) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (in short ‘BNS’).
3. As per FIR, the sister of the informant was murdered in her matrimonial home by accused persons including petitioners who are none, but the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the deceased, when the deceased sister of the informant failed to pay Rs. 1 lakh to pay installment Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.59256 of 2026(2) dt.19-08-2026
against loan obtained from Jivika Didi and Mahila Samiti.
4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of petitioners submitted that both the petitioners are in-laws having no connection with daily and domestic affairs of deceased and her husband. It is submitted that petitioners appears implicated in this case only out of their relations with the husband of the deceased. It is also pointed out that marriage of deceased with the son of petitioners solemnized long back in the year 2011. It is also pointed out that the deceased was a short tempered lady, and when on such one occasion, scuffle took place between the deceased and her husband, she committed suicide. In support of his submission, learned counsel for the petitioners drawn attention of this Court towards the paragraph no. 46 and 47 of the case diary, where statement of independent witnesses were recorded. It is also submitted that the post-mortem report showing a “ligature mark of 10x 1 inch around neck not present at the back of neck” suggest that it was a case of suicide and not strangulation.
5. Learned APP opposed the prayer of bail.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.59256 of 2026(2) dt.19-08-2026
6. In view of aforesaid factual submissions and by taking note of fact, as the investigation suggest occurrence prima facie a suicide as discussed aforesaid coupled with the fact that petitioners are in-laws claimed to live separately with the deceased and her husband, having otherwise, no connection with their daily and domestic affairs, accordingly, the above-named petitioners, who are of clean antecedent, are directed to be released on bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate Court, Saran at Chapra, in connection with Derni P.S. Case No.65 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the CrPC/under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.
Aniket/- (Chandra Shekhar Jha, J.) U T