Crl. Misc. No.M-8953 of 2012 ----1-- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No.M-8953 of 2012 Date of Decision: 09.05.2012 Meenu alias Rajni alias Priya ..... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana .... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIJENDER SINGH MALIK 1. Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present:- Mr. S.S. Swaich, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Sagar Deswal, AAG, Haryana for the respondent-State. -- VIJENDER SINGH MALIK, J(ORAL). Meenu alias Rajni alias Priya, the petitioner has sought pre- arrest bail in a case registered by way of FIR No. 50 dated 17.01.2012 at Police Station City Panipat, District Panipat, for an offence punishable under sections 498-A, 406 and 323 read with section 34 IPC. Crl. Misc. No.M-8953 of 2012 ----2-- Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the married sister-in-law of the complainant Usha @ Mansi. According to him, she was married on 27.11.2002, about five years earlier to the marriage of the complainant with the brother of the petitioner. He has further submitted that the petitioner has got two children and she was living at Ludhiana and when her husband got a job at Mohali and then Kharar, they shifted to Kharar. According to him, the allegations in the FIR against the petitioner are general in nature. He has further submitted that on 23.09.2011 the complainant had made a complaint to the Chandigarh Police and in the said complaint, she did not level any allegation against the petitioner. He has further submitted that in fact it is the complainant, who has made the life of her husband and others hell and for that reason, the brother of the petitioner had to file a petition for judicial separation, which is pending. He has further submitted that the petitioner has joined the investigation and her father and brother i.e. father-in-law and husband of the complainant have already been arrested by the police and granted regular bail. According to him, recovery also stands effected in this case. Learned State counsel, on the instructions of Brij Lal, ASI, admits that the petitioner has joined the investigation. According to him, father-in-law and husband of the complainant have been arrested in this case and have been granted regular bail. According to him, recovery of dowry articles stands effected. Crl. Misc. No.M-8953 of 2012 ----3-- Though there are allegations against the petitioner that she administered some poisonous material to the complainant, yet there is no medical evidence to support the same. The other allegations against the petitioner are general in nature. Keeping in view the fact that she has joined the investigation and that the father-in-law and husband of the complainant have already been arrested and recovery stands effected, I find the petitioner to be entitled to bail. Consequently, the petition is allowed. The order dated 28.03.2012 granting interim anticipatory bail to the petitioner is made absolute. May 09, 2012 (VIJENDER SINGH MALIK) dinesh JUDGE