Criminal Misc.No. M- 16268 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc.No. M- 16268 of 2010 Date of decision:- 26.8.2010 Kulwinder Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present:- Mr. S.S. Kanwal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. K.D. Sachdeva, Addl.A.G. Punjab. RAM CHAND GUPTA J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. by the petitioner for grant of anticipatory bail in case FIR No.9 dated 29.1.2010, under Section 498-A IPC, registered at Police Station Hariana, District Hoshiarpur. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the whole record carefully. Brief allegations against the petitioner-accused are that his marriage with the complainant was solemnized on 19.10.2008. Parents of complainant being poor, did not give sufficient dowry in the marriage, hence, petitioner and his family members were not satisfied with the dowry, given in the marriage. There was demand of Rs.50,000/-. Complainant used to be given beatings on that account. On 30.8.2009 she was given severe beatings and she was struck against wall by holding her hair and she was also given leg blows on her stomach and on her private parts. Her throat was also Criminal Misc.No. M- 16268 of 2010 -2- strangulated and petitioner-husband made her unconscious. Her mother-in-law while standing in the street, was saying that complainant should not be left alive. On telephone call, given by the complainant, her brother-in-law, her elder sister Surjit Kaur and other sister Kuldip Kaur reached the house of her in-laws and they had taken her to the hospital. Earlier also the matter between complainant and present petitioner was got compromised as per Annexure P-1, placed on record by the petitioner. There are serious allegations of physical violence and cruelty being committed on complainant by the petitioner-husband. The matter was got enquired into by the Senior Superintendent of Police and however FIR was lodged only against the petitioner- husband and not against his parents. In view of serious allegations of physical violence and cruelty being committed by the petitioner-husband on the complainant-wife, it is not such a case, in which extra-ordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner-accused Kulwinder Singh. Hence, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the petition for anticipatory bail to the petitioner-accused Kulwinder Singh is dismissed. Interim order is also vacated. August 26, 2010 ( RAM CHAND GUPTA ) vj JUDGE