IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No.M-24526 of 2008 Date of decision : 16.12.2008 Beant Kaur .....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Mr. R.S.Rai, Senior Advocate with Ms. Meenaxi Dogra, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Manjari Nehru Kaul, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. Mr. Bipin Ghai, Senior Advocate with Mr. Deepak Garg, Advocate for the complainant. S. D. ANAND, J. The petitioner is mother-in-law of the deceased lady. The parents of the deceased lady were informed in time to be able to attend inquest proceedings and also the cremation that followed. They did not make a grievance of any dowry-related harassment. Learned counsel for the complainant states that it appeared in the reinvestigation by an officer of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police that complainant side did want to lodge an FIR but was prevented from doing so by the intervention of the Panchayat. Without expressing any opinion on merits, the petitioner is ordered to be released on bail to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate concerned. December 16, 2008 (S.D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE