{"id":59387,"date":"2011-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sunita-devi-ors-vs-state-of-bihar-on-11-august-2011"},"modified":"2019-03-17T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T10:40:45","slug":"sunita-devi-ors-vs-state-of-bihar-on-11-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sunita-devi-ors-vs-state-of-bihar-on-11-august-2011","title":{"rendered":"Sunita Devi &amp; Ors vs State Of Bihar on 11 August, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Patna High Court &#8211; Orders<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sunita Devi &amp; Ors vs State Of Bihar on 11 August, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>                     IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA\n                          Criminal Miscellaneous No.33799 of 2010\n                              1. Sunita Devi\n                              2. Poonam Devi\n                              3. Manju Devi\n                              4. Ajit Kumar @ Ajit Kr. Barnwal\n                              5. Pappu Kumar\n                              ---------------------------- Petitioners\n                                               Versus\n                                         State Of Bihar\n                                  ----------------------------------\n<\/pre>\n<p>3   11.8.2011               Heard        learned       counsel         for      the<\/p>\n<p>                petitioners and the informant.\n<\/p>\n<p>                            Torture for demand of dowry soon before<\/p>\n<p>                the     death   within     seven      years    of    marriage    in<\/p>\n<p>                matrimonial home is the allegation followed by<\/p>\n<p>                unnatural death. Submission is that petitioners<\/p>\n<p>                are sister-in-law (Gotni) and brother-in-laws of<\/p>\n<p>                the deceased. For the most of the period spent<\/p>\n<p>                in    Sasural     She    (deceased)      remained       with    her<\/p>\n<p>                husband at his working place, so petitioners had<\/p>\n<p>                no    concern     with    her   affair     or   relation       with<\/p>\n<p>                husband      including      demand       for    him.     Moreover<\/p>\n<p>                petitioner no.1 is Gotni having status of the<\/p>\n<p>                deceased in family. Further submission is that<\/p>\n<p>                final form is submitted in the case exonerating<\/p>\n<p>                petitioners from the liability.\n<\/p>\n<p>                            Thus,   having      regard    to    the    facts    and<\/p>\n<p>                circumstances of the case as well as submission<\/p>\n<p>                of    the    parties,     in    the    event    of     arrest    or<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                       2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>     surrender    within     one    month   from    the    date     of<\/p>\n<p>     communication     of    this   order,    the    above     named<\/p>\n<p>     petitioners     shall     be    released       on    bail      on<\/p>\n<p>     furnishing      bail    bond     of     Rs.    10,000\/-(ten<\/p>\n<p>     thousand) each with two sureties of the like<\/p>\n<p>     amount   each     to    the     satisfaction         of   Chief<\/p>\n<p>     Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in Rajauli P.S. Case<\/p>\n<p>     No. 141 of 2008, subject to the condition as<\/p>\n<p>     laid down under section 438(2) Cr.P.C.<\/p>\n<pre>AI                                          ( Mandhata Singh, J.)\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court &#8211; Orders Sunita Devi &amp; Ors vs State Of Bihar on 11 August, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33799 of 2010 1. Sunita Devi 2. Poonam Devi 3. Manju Devi 4. Ajit Kumar @ Ajit Kr. Barnwal 5. Pappu Kumar &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Petitioners Versus State Of Bihar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-patna-high-court-orders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sunita Devi &amp; Ors vs State Of Bihar on 11 August, 2011 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sunita-devi-ors-vs-state-of-bihar-on-11-august-2011\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunita Devi &amp; 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