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| Court rejects bail of daughter-in-law in abetment to suicide case | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 18: Excise Magistrate Jammu Umesh Sharma has rejected the bail of Aarti Khanna, daughter-in-law of a family in abetment to suicide case.
Information was received by the police of Police Station, Janipur to the effect that dead bodies of a couple are lying in suspicious circumstances in one of the rooms of a house at Janipur Colony, Jammu. An inquest u/s 174 Cr PC came to be initiated in the said regard. During the probe, the dead bodies were identified as that of one Shashi Paul aged 56 years and of his wife namely Kiran aged 54 years. The statements of witnesses conversant with the facts and circumstances of the case were recorded. A suicide note allegedly written by the deceased Shashi was also recovered from the spot and the same was forwarded to FSL for expert opinion.
The couple had ended their lives allegedly by consuming poisonous substance and to the said effect expert opinion was also obtained.
The post mortem report was also made part of the file. On the basis of the report received from FSL, it got established that the suicide note was written by Shashi only. On the basis of probe conducted, it has been found by the police that the applicant/accused, who happened to be the daughter-in-law of the deceased couple, had abetted their suicide.
On the basis of the inquest conducted, FIR 71/2022 came to be registered in Police Station Janipur against the applicant under section 306 IPC and arrested on 6-7-2022 and is on judicial remand granted by the court of competent Magistrate. Through the medium of the instant application, the applicant/accused Aarti Khanna has now knocked the doors of this court seeking relief of bail in her favour.
Excise Magistrate Jammu observed that investigation of the case is in progress and the accused has been arrested just few days back. Further, many other material aspects of the case are yet to be investigated and in case the accused is enlarged on bail there is every apprehension that she may temper with the evidence and may also flee away from the clutches of law.
The judge observed that strong prima facia has been made out against the accused. No doubt personal liberty of the accused is her constitutional guarantee but the same can be refused in accordance with the procedure established by law and is required to be balanced with the impact of the offence upon the society.
With these observations, the court rejected the bail application. |
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