IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Original Jurisdiction Dated: Nainital: the 22nd day of September, 2009 First Bail Application No. 865 of 2009 Criminal Side 1. Gulshan Singh S/o Chandan Singh 2. Smt. Surjeet Kaur W/o Gulshan Singh R/o Subhash Nagar Awas Vikas, P.S. Kashipur District Udham Singh Nagar. ……...Applicants Versus State of Uttarakhand ……….Opposite Party Arising out of Crime/F.I.R. No. 355 of 2009 Under Sections: 304B I.P.C. & ¾ Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. P.S.:Kashipur District: Udham Singh Nagar. _____________________________________________________________________________ Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J Heard Smt. Pushpa Joshi, Advocate for the applicants, Shri Lalit Sharma, Advocate for the complainant and Shri M.A. Khan, Brief Holder for the State. Applicants-Gulshan Singh and Smt. Surjeet Kaur, who are in jail in connection with crime/F.I.R. No. 355 of 2009, relating to offence punishable under Section 304 B I.P.C. and one punishable under Section ¾ Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, P.S.:Kashipur, District-Udham Singh Nagar, have sought their release on bail. Learned counsel for the applicants submitted that applicant No. 1 is father-in-law and applicant No. 2 is mother-in-law of the deceased. Learned counsel for the applicants further contended that there is no specific role assigned to the applicants relating to demand of dowry or harassment in the First Information Report. It is further contended that applicants are living separately from the deceased and her husband Dilbag Singh. Having considered submissions of learned counsel for the parties and after going through the papers on record, without expressing any opinion as to the final merits of the case, this Court is of the view that applicants deserve bail. Let the applicants- Gulshan Singh and Smt. Surjeet Kaur, be released on bail on executing personal bond by each one of them and furnishing two sureties, for each one of them, each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kashipur. Dt. 22.09.2009 (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) S