HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9614 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. and Sri Om Prakash Tiwari, who has filed Vakalatnama on behalf of informant. The Vakalatnama is taken on record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.223 of 2025, under Section 80(2), 85 of BNS and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, Police Station Kotwali Dehat, District Bahraich. 3. The FIR in question was lodged alleging that the daughter of the informant was married with the brother of the applicant on 15.02.2025 and sufficient dowry was given. Subsequently, on 10.06.2025, an information was given that the daughter of the informant had died. The cause of death as per the postmortem report is ante mortem hanging. Nine other injuries are reported in lower abdomen region, right elbow joint, wrist joint, right knee joint, left knee joint, right thigh, left thigh and left arm. 4. The contention of the Counsel for the applicant is that the applicant is the sister in law of the deceased and there is no specific allegation against the applicant to link her with the offence in question. 5. The Counsel for the informant on the other hand states that keeping in view the nature of the injury disclosed in the postmortem report, it is clear Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Rahul Kumar Shukla, Shivam Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Aradhana @ Radhana Mishra .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) that the victim was beaten and thereafter hanged to death. 6. Learned A.G.A. also opposed the bail prayer. 7. The contention of the Counsel for the informant unfortunately is not corroborated by the postmortem report on record. Even in the statement, there is no specific allegation against the applicant of either demanding dowry or in any away harassing the deceased soon before death either physically or mentally. The applicant, who is a lady, is in custody since 27.08.2025 and has two children having aged about one and a half year and six years. In these circumstances, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 8. Let the applicant Aradhana @ Radhana Mishra be released on bail in the aforesaid first information report on her furnishing personal bonds and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions: (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 8, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 9614 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench