In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-10362 of 2010 ..... Date of decision:23.8.2010 Kamlesh .....Petitioner v. State of Haryana .....Respondent .... Present: Mr. A.S. Sullar, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. K.C. Gupta, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Haryana for respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks regular bail in a case registered against her on 19.6.2008 for the offences under Sections 302 and 34 Indian Penal Code. The FIR in the case has been registered on the statement of Yashwanti (deceased) aged about 30 years. According to Yashwanti, she was married to Ashok Kumar on 13.3.1994. She had three children, namely, Sheetal aged 11 years, Punit aged 9 years and Gaurav aged 7 years. She did household work while her husband was a vagabond and addicted to drinking. Since the last 7-8 days, the husband of the complainant had gone out of the village. She had a separate kitchen from her mother-in-law. She used to stay on the ground floor and her mother-in-law resides on the first floor. Her sister-in-law Kamlesh (Nanad) (petitioner) wife of Mukesh and Manisha wife of Raj Kumar had come since the last 15-20 days. In the evening of 18.6.2008 an altercation had occurred between the complainant and her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law Kamlesh (petitioner) and Manisha Cr. Misc. No.M-10362 of 2010 [2] on some domestic affairs. The matter had been patched up. On 19.3.2008 at about 8.30 a.m., in the morning the complainant was feeding her buffaloes then her sister-in-law Kamlesh (petitioner) poured kerosene oil on her waist and Manisha lit the same with match stick. She raised hue and cry and came out in the street while burning where her sister-in-law (Jethani) Suresh wife of Krishan also started raising noise and her brother-in-law (Dewar) Rajesh also came on the spot and they after covering her with clothes tried to extinguish the fire and got her admitted in the hospital for treatment. Her sister-in-law (Nanad) wanted to oust her from the house and her statement was recorded. The petitioner in the incident that occurred is alleged to have poured kerosene oil on the waist of the complainant and the match stick was lit by Manisha. The complainant then died. Manisha, co-accused of the petitioner was tried by the learned Sessions Judge, Rohtak and was convicted vide judgment and order dated 12.1.2009. The petitioner was declared a proclaimed offender and was arrested on 25.11.2009. Thereafter, a supplementary report was filed, a copy of which has been shown from the Police file. The dying declaration of the complainant Yashwanti was recorded by the Investigating Officer in which she named the petitioner. Keeping in view the fact that co-accused of the petitioner, namely, Manisha, who lit the match stick, has been convicted for the offence, no ground for grant of regular bail is made out at this stage. The criminal miscellaneous petition is dismissed. August 23, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*