Crl.M.No.M-17375 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M-17375 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: June 29, 2010 Mala Ram .....Petitioner v. State of Haryana .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Ashwani Bhardwaj, Advocate for the petitioner. ...... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) The present petition filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.238, dated 23.5.2010, under Sections 498-A, 406, 506, 323, 34 IPC, registered at Police Station Sadar, Bhiwani. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and have gone through the whole record carefully. Petitioner is father-in-law of the complainant. Mother-in-law of the complainant has already been granted anticipatory bail by learned Sessions Judge. Marriage of the complainant was solemnised on 31.1.2008 with son of the petitioner. There are specific allegations against petitioner- accused that he alongwith co-accused demanded a car in dowry and Rs.5 lacs and that he alongwith co-accused tortured the complainant on account of dowry. The cruelty is to the extent that petitioner alongwith his wife and son tried to complainant aborted while she was pregnant and for that purpose she was taken to the doctor. In August 2009, the brother of complainant had given Rs.1.5 lacs. There are allegations that in March 2010, her father-in-law, i.e., the present petitioner had taken her to his house and she was given beatings for getting the child aborted and she was locked in a room. There are further specific allegations that on 13/14.5.2010, petitioner alongwith his wife, son and daughter gave beatings Crl.M.No.M-17375 of 2010 (O&M) -2- to her and locked her into a room. On 21.5.2010, again she was given beatings and her golden ornaments were also snatched. There are further allegations that there was a demand of car and Rs.5 lacs failing which the complainant was sent to her house and thereafter divorce petition was filed. Complainant was also given kick blows in her stomach and she remained admitted in PGI. Golden ornaments are yet to be recovered. Hence, it is not such a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner-accused. Hence, in view of these facts, and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition filed by petitioner- Mala Ram for anticipatory bail is, hereby, dismissed being devoid of any merit. 29.6.2010 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge