IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.21988 of 2009 AMARESH KUMAR GUPTA, son of Sri. Arun Prasad Gupta, resident of Village-Begam Sarai, P.S.-Bachhawara, District-Begusarai. …….Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar …….Opposite Party. ----------- 02. 10.07.2009 The petitioner is a Constable in the RPF who apprehends his arrest in Samastipur Town(Mufassil) P.S. Case No. 672 of 2008 instituted under Section 498-A/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The informant is the alleged wife and she alleges that petitioner while being posted at Samastipur used to take meal from her house because of this they developed intimacy and ultimately got married in a Temple. After marriage the father-in-law started demanding dowry saying that his son was a Constable in RPF and on non payment thereof she was tortured and thrown out of the house. Petitioner submits that though there were talks of marriage between the petitioner and the informant, it was broke down because it was learnt that the informant’s father and brother were accused in several heinous crimes and had also been arrested. As a retaliation to this, the present case has been lodged. In fact there has been no marriage at all and the documents in support of the marriage are forged. It is further submitted that this was not a case - 2 - where youngster has eloped to get married, it was an arranged marriage which normally does not take place in Temple without notice to public or relation. In the facts and circumstances stated above, let the petitioner namely Amaresh Kumar, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today, be released on Anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Samastipur Town(Mufassil) P.S. Case No. 672 of 2008 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. Shageer (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J)