1 BA-1160.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.1160 OF 2011 {For Bail} Shalabai Tukaram Patil .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri V.V. Purwant for the Applicant. Ms S.D. Shinde, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: SEPTEMBER 07, 2011 P.C: This is an application for bail by a mother-in-law who has been arrested on 25-6-2011 in connection with the death of the daughter-in-law by burning on the same day. The victim was married to the applicant's son on 18-2-2010. It is alleged that the in-laws, including the applicant, were ill-treating the victim complaining that they were not given proper gifts in the marriage and had failed to comply with the demand of Rs.50,000/- in cash, a Hero Honda motorcycle and gold ornaments weighing two-and-half tolas. The victim is alleged to have attempted to commit suicide on 27-6-2010 by consuming some poison. Even thereafter the conduct of the applicant and her relations did not change and eventually on 2 BA-1160.11 22-6-2011 the victim set herself on fire. She died on 24-6-2011 while taking treatment. The first dying declaration, recorded by a police officer, shows that the victim had informed that the incident was an accident. In the second dying declaration, recorded before the Naib Tahsildar and Executive Magistrate, she had stated that she set herself on fire being tired of the ill-treatment by the present applicant. Statements of neighbours are yet not recorded. Charge-sheet is not yet filed. The allegation about unlawful demands did not find place in the dying declarations of the victim. It is not known as to what was the ill- treatment at the hands of the applicant which made the victim take the precipitate step on the incidental day. Considering the nature of the evidence collected and the fact that the applicant is in jail for the last two months, the applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.63 of 2011 of Radhanagari Police Station, Kolhapur on her furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs. 25,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.25,000/-. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)