Criminal Misc. No. M-33735 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-33735 of 2010 Date of decision : 20.01.2011 Kuldip Kaur ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab ....Respondent BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. SPS Sidhu, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. R.K. Nihalsinghwala, Addl. Advocate General Punjab. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) This is a petition filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking regular bail in a case registered against the petitioner vide FIR No. 11 dated 29.05.2010 under Sections 304-B/34 IPC at Police Station Lakho Ke Behram, District Ferozepur. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is unmarried daughter of the family of Kabul Singh i.e. in-laws of the deceased. He submits that petitioner was arraigned as an accused in the case but no specific role is attributed to her. He submits that trial is likely to take long time to conclude, thus, no useful purpose would be served by detaining the petitioner in custody during its pendency. Learned State counsel has opposed the prayer for bail on the ground that allegations against the petitioner are serious in nature. She, however, does not dispute the fact that trial of the case is in progress. Criminal Misc. No. M-33735 of 2010 2 Keeping in view the fact that petitioner is a young woman of 21 years and has in custody for more than six months now and the fact that that trial may still take some time to conclude, I am of the considered view that no useful purpose would be served by detaining the petitioner in custody during its pendency. Without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, I deem it appropriate to grant regular bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the petition is allowed and petitioner is ordered to be enlarged on bail to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate, Ferozepur. January 20, 2011 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE