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2025 DAILYLAW 173083 (ALL)

RAM DEVI v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.

BAIL/10432/2025 · 2025-10-31

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 10432 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.331 of 2025, under Section 80(2), 85 BNS & Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, P.S. Isha Nagar, District Lakhimpur Kheri. 3. In terms of the FIR it was alleged that daughter of the informant was married to the brother-in-law of the applicant. Subsequently, the entire matrimonial family had killed her. Cause of death, as per the postmortem report, is antemortem hanging. The applicant is sister-in-law of the deceased. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering the postmortem report and there being nothing on record to demonstrate that soon before her death the victim was harassed mentally or physically at the instance of the applicant in relation to demand of dowry, the applicant who is in custody since 15.09.2025 and has no criminal antecedents, is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Ram Devi be released on bail in aforesaid FIR number on her furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of court concerned with the following conditions: Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Alok Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ram Devi .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) (a) The applicant shall execute a bond to undertake to attend the hearings; (b) The applicant shall not commit any offence similar to the offence of which she is accused or suspected of the commission; and (c) 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 from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence. October 31, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 10432 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench