HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11265 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants as well as learned A.G.A. and perused the record. 2. The applicants seek enlargement on bail in FIR No.168 of 2025, under Sections 80(2), 85 of BNS and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, Police Station Hariyawan, District Hardoi. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was married to the son of the applicants. Subsequently, on account of non-payment of dowry, she was killed by the matrimonial family. The cause of death, as per the postmortem report, was ante mortem hanging. The applicants are the mother-in-law and the father-in-law. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the postmortem report and there being nothing against the applicants to suggest that soon before her death, the victim was subjected to any physical or mental harassment in relation to any demand of dowry and the fact that the applicants have no criminal antecedents and are languishing in jail since 28.07.2025, I am of the view that the applicants are entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicants Smt. Potima and Suresh be released on bail in the abovesaid first information report number on their furnishing personal Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Dhananjay Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Smt. Potima And Another .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) bonds and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions: (a) The applicants shall execute a bond to undertake to attend the hearings; (b) The applicants shall not commit any offence similar to the offence of which he is accused or suspected of the commission; and (c) The applicants 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. November 19, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 11265 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench