1 SNS IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MUMBAI APPELLATE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.91 OF 2011 Shri Munna Mohd. Amin Shaikh ...Applicant. v. The State of Maharashtra ...Respondents. Ms Anjali Patil ,adv. For the Applicant. Ms A.T.Javeri, APP For the Respondent/State. CORAM : J.H. BHATIA, J. DATED : JANUARY 31, 2011. P.C. 1 Heard. The present applicant, who is father-in-law of the deceased seeks to be released on bail in crime no.119 of 2010 registered at Bhoiwada police station for the offences punishable under Sections 498A and 304B r/w section 34 of the I.P.C. 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 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 2 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. Brother-in-law has been granted anticipatory bail and presently, only the husband and his father are in custody. 3 In view of the fact that the deceased and her husband were living separately from his parents when she committed suicide, the applicant, who is father-in-law, deserves to be granted bail. 4 Therefore, applicant be released on his executing PR of Rs. 15,000/- with surety in the like amount with condition that he shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence. (J.H. BHATIA,J.)