Jharkhand High Court
Deepak Verma vs The State Of Jharkhand on 19 January, 2021
Author: H. C. Mishra
Bench: H. C. Mishra, Rajesh Kumar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
Criminal Appeal (D.B.) No. 344 of 2020
1. Deepak Verma
@ Deepak Kumar Verma
2. Gautam Kumar Verma ..... ... Appellants
Versus
The State of Jharkhand ..... ... Respondent
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CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H. C. MISHRA : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH KUMAR
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For the Appellants : Mr. D. K. Deo, Advocate.
For the respondent-State : A.P.P.
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The matter was taken up through Video Conferencing. Learned counsels for the parties had no objection with it and submitted that the audio and video qualities are good.
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05/ 19.01.2021 This appeal will be heard. Admit.
Issue notice.
I.A. No. 3196 of 2020.
Heard learned counsel for the appellants and learned counsel for the State, on the interlocutory application, filed on behalf of the appellants, for granting bail, during the pendency of this appeal.
The appellants have been convicted and sentenced for the offences under Sections 304-B, 498-A / 34 of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
The appellants are the brothers-in-law of the deceased, and there is omnibus allegation of subjecting the deceased to cruelty and torture for the demand of dowry, and committing her dowry death, against these appellants. However, the appellants were also on bail during the pendency of trial. The mother-in-law of the deceased has also been granted bail in her separate appeal.
In the facts of the case, we are inclined to release the appellants Deepak Verma @ Deepak Kumar Verma and Gautam Kumar Verma, on bail. Accordingly, the appellants, named above, are directed to be released on bail, during the pendency of this appeal, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge-II, Koderma, in connection with S.T. No. 62 of 2009.
The aforesaid interlocutory application stands allowed.
( H. C. Mishra, J.) (Rajesh Kumar, J.) Amitesh/-