Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 20: Additional Sessions Judge Jammu Kishore Kumar has rejected the bail applications of Yog Raj and his wife Swarana Devi, who were involved in a dowry death case.
According to the police case, the daughter-in-law of the applicants namely Jaya Bharati on 10.08.2020 committed suicide by getting herself hanged at her matrimonial home at Channi Himmat. Accordingly, the matter with respect to death of Jaya Bharati was reported to the Police Station Channi Himmat.
After hearing APP Vikrant Sharma for the UT whereas Advocate Mohsin Bhat for the applicants, Additional Sessions Judge observed, “the degeneration of society due to the pernicious system of dowry and the unconscionable demands made by greedy and unscrupulous husbands and their parents and relatives resulting in an alarming number of suicidal and dowry deaths by women, has shaken the social conscience to such an extent that legislature made some deterrent provision of law to combat this evil of dowry”.
“Fact remains that in spite of many legislations enacted with regard to protection of women against the atrocities and cruelties committed against them by their in-laws, have proved of no avail. Such offences against women are on rise and getting momentum day by day”, the court said, adding “more sincere efforts are in fact required to restrict this evil of dowry and heinous crime besides making stringent laws by the legislation”.
“Gravity of the offence, punishment prescribed for the alleged offence, level of accusation against the accused, stage of the case, tendency to flee and potential to temper with the evidence by the accused etc are some of the important factors to be considered by the court while deciding the bail application”, the Judge said.
“All the accused persons are prime facie responsible for the death of the victim, a newly married girl, who was in the custody of the accused persons. The role of the parents become more important in the matrimonial home, to defuse the controversies if at all accrued between a couple. But the irony is this that parents always took the side of their son irrespective of the fault of their son than that of the bride”, the court said.
With these observations, court rejected the bail applications.
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