2025:UHC:10225 SL. No. Dat e Office Not es, r epor t s, or der s or pr oceedin gs or dir ect ion s an d Regist r ar ’s or der w it h Sign at u r es COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS BA1 No. 2197 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Mr. Pavan Kumar Nath and Mr. Vinay Bisht, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mrs. Meenakshi Sharma, learned Brief Holder for the State. 3. The present applicant ‘Chhunnu Singh’ S/o Harcharan is praying for bail in reference to First Information Report dated 15.09.2025 bearing FIR No. 0245 of 2025 P.S. ITI, District Udham Singh Nagar, wherein, the present applicant along with four others namely Sanjay, Gaurav, Ankit and mother-in-law and the wife of the present applicant has been implicated for the offence punishable under Section 108 of BNS, 2023. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that in fact the applicant’s daughter Preeti married with the deceased, who died due to consuming poison on 24.08.2025, and from their marriage two female child and one male child were born and thereafter after 17 days the son-in-law the deceased also committed suicide. He submits that the FIR infact has been lodged by the Nephew of the deceased with some ulterior purposes and motive though infact the deceased committed suicide due to depression since just few days back his wife also died. 5. On the previous date the State was directed to get the instructions since the FIR reveals that there was some suicidal note and the extract of the suicidal note was also placed before this court by the learned Brief Holder for the State, on perusal of which it reveals that there is no direct allegation against the in-laws; however, there is reference of one person namely Ravi to whom the deceased in suicidal note states that he is the main culprit in killing his wife. 6. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that even on perusal of suicidal note there is no such ingredients which constitute the offence punishable under Section 108 of BNS, 2023. 2025:UHC:10225 7. Apart from this, in the bail application there is reference of sale deed executed by the deceased in favour of the present applicant the father-in-law but in the sale deed there is reference that the sale deed is being executed for future prospects of the three children of the deceased. 8. Learned State counsel apprise to this court that the investigation is going on. 9. After hearing the arguments of the learned counsel for the parties and after perusing the FIR and the suicidal note and further taking into consideration that in the FIR there is no reference of the other person namely Ravi whose name has been given in the suicidal note, this court is of the view that taking into consideration that the applicant’s daughter married with the deceased, who died by consuming poison and the deceased is the son-in-law of the applicant, this court is of the view that the applicant deserves for bail. 10. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case the bail application is allowed. 11. Let the applicant ‘Chhhunnu Singh’ be released on bail on furnishing his personal bond and two sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 18.11.2025 PR 2025:UHC:10225