HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 29044 of 2025 Court No. - 66 HON'BLE ARUN KUMAR SINGH DESHWAL, J. 1. No one appeared on behalf of the first informant despite service of notice by the police. 2. Heard Sri Ashok Kumar Shukla, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Rakesh Kumar Mishra, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 3. The instant bail application has been filed with a prayer to release the applicant on bail during the trial in Case Crime No.552 of 2024, under Sections 85, 80 of B.N.S. and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, Police Station- Rasada, District Ballia. 4. Contention of counsel for the applicant is that the applicant is husband of the deceased. He has been falsely implicated. The deceased herself committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance. It is further submitted that on the basis of general and vague allegation, the applicant has been falsely implicated, though in the FIR as well as in the statement of witnesses, no specific time and date has been mentioned for demand of dowry, therefore, the allegation of demand of dowry is absolutely false and the applicant has been falsely implicated. Applicant has no criminal history. He is languishing in jail since 29.10.2024. In case the applicant is released on bail, he will not misuse the liberty of bail and would cooperate in the investigation/trial proceedings. 5. Per contra, learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the prayer for bail and submitted that the deceased died under unnatural circumstance within seven years of her marriage and there was consistence statement of first informant Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ashok Kumar Shukla, Surendra Madhukar Godbole Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : Manoj Kumar Rai, G.A. Ashwani Kharwar .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) and other family members of the deceased that the deceased was subjected to cruelty for non-fulfillment of demand of dowry, therefore, the applicant is not entitled to be released on bail. 6. Considering the aforesaid submissions of learned counsel for the parties and taking into account that the deceased died under unnatural circumstance within seven years of her marriage and there is material showing that the deceased was subjected to cruelty soon before her death for non-fulfillment of demand of dowry, therefore, this Court is not inclined to release the applicant on bail, at this stage. 7. Accordingly, the bail application is rejected. 8. However, considering the observations made by the Apex Court in the case of Liakat Ali v. State of Jammu & Kashmir, Writ Petition (Crl) No.99 of 2026 that if a person is in jail, then it is the duty of the trial court and the prosecution to conclude the trial as early as possible, therefore, the trial court is directed to conclude the trial as early as possible. October 1, 2026 CS/- BAIL No. 29044 of 2025 2 (Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal,J.) Digitally signed by :- CHANDAN SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad