1 SNS IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MUMBAI APPELLATE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.65 OF 2001 1 Smt. Rukhsana Sageer Shaikh 2 Smt. Afsana Nisar Shaikh 3 Smt. Farzana Zameer Momin 4 Smt. Shabana Tahaman Sardar 5 Smt. Afrin Shabir Shaikh ...Applicants. v. The State ...Respondents. Ms Anjali Patil ,adv. For the Applicants. Smt. S.D.Shinde, APP For the Respondent/State. CORAM : J.H. BHATIA, J. DATED : FEBRUARY 2, 2011. P.C. 1 Heard. The applicants, who are sisters of the husband of the deceased Apsari, seek anticipatory bail in crime no.119 of 2010 registered by Bhoiwada Police Station under Sections 498A, 304B r/w Section 34 of the IPC. 2 According to the prosecution, deceased Apsari daughter of the first informant Mohd. Khan Gafur Khan Pathan was married to Rizwan Shaikh on 28.5.2008. She committed suicide on 23.6.2010. According to the prosecution, after marriage, her husband wanted an amount of Rs.2 lac for establishing a new hotel and she was sent to her 2 parents to bring an amount of Rs.2 lacs by her father-in-law, brother-in- law and mother-in-law. As demand could not be fulfilled they used to harass her. Initially she was living with the joint family. However, after the birth of the child, when again the problem arose, husband of the deceased took a separate room on rent and the couple began to live together separate from the parents and brothers. F.I.R. was lodged by father of the deceased on 24.6.2010 against husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law, five sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law and some other relatives. Thus, all the family members and many relatives of the husband were impleaded as accused. Out of them four were arrested. Mother-in-law has been granted bail. Father-in-law has been granted bail by this court in Criminal Application 91 of 2010 by the order dated 31st January, 2011. Brother-in-law is also granted anticipatory bail. 3 Therefore, in the event of arrest in Crime No.119 of 2010, applicants be released on their executing PR of Rs.10,000/- each with surety in the like amount with condition that they shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence and shall make themselves available to the police for interrogation as and when required during the day time. 3 4 Application stands disposed off. (J.H. BHATIA,J.)