SMT. SANT KUMARI AND ANOTHER v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME DEPTT. CIVIL SECTT. LKO.
BAIL/12661/2025 · 2025-12-18
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12661 of 2025
Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J.
1. Supplementary affidavit is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned AGA and perused the record. 3. The applicants seek enlargement on bail in FIR No.361 of 2025, under Section 80(2), 85 BNS & Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, P.S. Visheshwarganj, District Bahraich. 4. In terms of the FIR, allegations were levelled that daughter of the informant was married to son of the applicants around six months ago. Subsequently, the entire matrimonial family had killed her for dowry. Cause of death, as per the postmortem report, is antemortem hanging and apart from the ligature mark, no other injury was observed on the body of the deceased. Counsel for the applicants states that it was a case of suicidal death. The applicants herein are mother-in-law and father-in-law of the deceased. 5. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 6. 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 applicants in relation to demand of dowry, the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Nan Moon Tiwari, Ram Vishal Tripathi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Smt. Sant Kumari And Another .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Civil Sectt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s)
application is allowed. 7. Let the applicants Smt. Sant Kumari and Jai Prakash Maurya be released on bail in aforesaid FIR number on their furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of 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 they are 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.
December 18, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 12661 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench