Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 8: High Court has denied bail to husband and in-laws in the murder of a woman.
According to the police case, deceased Shaheen Akhter was married to the Sami Ullah in the year 2012 and soon after their wedlock Sami Ullah started maltreating his wife over dowry demand. Accordingly, a case under Section 498-A RPC was registered against the petitioners for the ill treatment meted out to Shaheen Akhter.
On the intervening night of December 12 and 13, 2013, the petitioners in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy put the deceased to death by strangulating her and after concealing the dead body for some time threw the same in a river/nallah at Ari Mendhar. It was on the January 4, 2014 that the body of the deceased was fished out of the Nallah.
After hearing both the sides, Justice M K Hanjura observed, “in a case of murder grant of bail is not the rule. Public policy, societal concerns and the general state of crime of such a nature are allied considerations which should weigh with the court while dealing with an application for bail”.
“Grant of bail in a case of murder not based on merits will neither save the ends of justice and law nor of the society at large. The present scenario where the cases of murder are on an increase cannot afford to be liberal”, the High Court said, adding “judicial health and discipline demands that reasons which are conducive should be spelt out while determining and deciding an application for bail as otherwise it is bound to considerably affect the administration of justice”.
With these observations, High Court rejected the bail application.
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