HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. - 7856 of 2025 Court No. - 70 HON'BLE DR. GAUTAM CHOWDHARY, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 2. The present application has been moved seeking anticipatory bail in Case Crime No. 110 of 2025, under Sections 85, 108 of B.N.S. and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, Police Station Kathela Samay Mata, District Siddharth Nagar, with the prayer that in the event of arrest, applicant may be released on anticipatory bail. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant is the husband of the deceased, who was married to him eight years ago. The allegation made in the F.I.R. is that all the accused named in the F.I.R. were not satisfied with the dowry given at the time of marriage, they used to make demand of additional dowry, on account of non fulfillment thereof she was being subjected to cruelty and mental agony caused by the accused including the applicant and ultimately she committed suicide along with her two minor children by jumping in a river. Learned counsel further submits that there is no suicide note. The informant in his second statement before the police has made specific allegation against the mother-in-law and has also stated that on the date of incident her husband and father-in-law were in Delhi. Thus, it has been argued that applicant is innocent and he has an apprehension that he may be arrested in the above- mentioned case, whereas there is no credible evidence against him. Till date no charge sheet has been filed in the matter. It has further been submitted that applicant has no criminal antecedents and that no coercive process has been issued against the applicant so far. It was also submitted that applicant undertakes to cooperate during investigation and trial and he would appear as and when required by the investigating agency or Court. It has been stated that in case, the applicant is granted anticipatory bail, he shall not misuse the liberty of bail and will cooperate with the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Chanchal Kumar Singh, Satish Chandra Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Vijay Prakash Chaturvedi Sachin Chauhan .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) investigation and would obey all conditions of bail. 4. Learned A.G.A. has opposed the application for anticipatory bail. 5. It may be stated that in case of Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra, (2011) 1 SCC 694, it has been held by Hon'ble Supreme Court that while deciding anticipatory bail, Court must consider nature and gravity of accusation, antecedent of accused, possibility of accused to flee from justice and that Court must evaluate entire available material against the accused carefully and that the exact role of the accused has also to be taken into consideration. 6. In the instant case, considering the settled principle of law regarding anticipatory bail, submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, nature of accusation, role of applicant and all attending facts and circumstances of the case, without expressing any opinion on merit of the case, a case for anticipatory bail is made out. 7. The anticipatory bail application is allowed. 8. In the event of arrest of the applicant-Sachin Chauhan, involved in the aforesaid case crime shall be released on anticipatory bail till submission of police report on his furnishing a personal bond of Rs. 50,000/- with two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the Station House Officer of the police station concerned with the following conditions :- (i) the applicant shall make himself available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required; (ii) the applicant shall not directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him/her/them from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer; (iii) the applicant would co-operate during investigation and trial and would not misuse the liberty of bail. 9. In default of any of the conditions, the Investigating Officer/prosecution shall be at liberty to file appropriate application for cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to the applicant. September 24, 2025 Mustaqeem. NABAIL No. 7856 of 2025 2 (Dr. Gautam Chowdhary,J.) Digitally signed by :- MOHD MUSTAQEEM KHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad