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2025 DAILYLAW 179007 (ALL)

SMT. SHYAMA DEVI v. STATE OF U.P THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME CIVIL SECTT. LKO.

BAIL/10829/2025 · 2025-11-10

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 10829 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned AGA for the State. Supplementary affidavit is taken on record. 2. The applicants seeks enlargement on bail in Case Crime/FIR No.378 of 2025, under Sections 80(2), 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Police Station - Lalganj, District Raebareli. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that in terms of the FIR it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was married with the son of applicant. Subsequently, the entire matrimonial family killed her sister for dowry. As per post mortem report, cause of death is ante-mortem strangulation. The applicant is the mother-in-law, aged about 65 years, having separate living 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering post-mortem report and the fact that the applicant has separate living coupled with the fact that the applicant is in custody since 22.08.2025 and has no criminal antecedent, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant- Smt. Shyama Devi be released on bail in aforesaid Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Jaikaran Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Smt. Shyama Devi .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Civil Sectt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) FIR/Case Crime Number subject to his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) each of the like amount 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 10, 2025 Mohit Singh/- BAIL No. 10829 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- MOHIT SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- MOHIT SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench