IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Ist Bail Application No.413 of 2010 Order on the Bail application of accused. CRIMINAL SIDE 1. Smt. Pushpa Devi 2. Km. Tara Devi .….Applicants (In Jail) Versus State of Uttarakhand …….Opposite party Dated: April 30, 2010 Arising out of Case Crime No.1 of 2009 U/Ss 304B/498A of IPC and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, Patwari Kshetra Batula, Tehsil Bhikiyasen, District Almora Hon’ble Dharam Veer, J. Heard Mr. Prabhakar Joshi, Advocate for the applicants as well as Mr. Amit Bhatt, Additional Government Advocate for the State and also perused the record. Learned counsel for the applicants submitted that the applicant no.1 Smt. Pushpa Devi is mother-in-law and applicant no.2 Km. Tara Devi is sister-in-law (Nanad) of deceased. The applicants are not at all beneficiary of the demand of dowry. It is pleaded that the applicant no.1 Smt. Pushpa Devi is an aged lady and is ailing with several diseases and the applicant no.2 Km. Tara Devi is an unmarried girl. It is also pleaded that the applicants are in jail from last more than three months. After considering all the facts and circumstances, perusing the contents of the FIR and other papers available on record, without expressing any opinion about the final merits of the case, the Court is of the view that the present applicants deserve bail at this stage. Let the applicants Smt. Pushpa Devi and Km. Tara Devi be released on bail on executing a personal bond by each one of them and on furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Almora. Bail application is allowed accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) 30.04.2010 RG