Vineet Vs State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko — Dowry and Cruelty | Allahabad HC (2025)

Vineet Vs State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko — Dowry and Cruelty | Allahabad HC (2025)

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Applicant Vineet to be released on bail in the aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number on furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- each, subject to conditions: attendance at hearings, non-commission of similar offences, and no inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts so as to dissuade disclosure or tamper with evidence.

Issue for consideration

Whether the accused-applicant Vineet is entitled to bail in FIR/Case Crime No. 315 of 2025 under sections 85, 80(2) BNS and section 3/4 DP Act, P.S. Sandana, District Sitapur.

Court's answer

Considering the post-mortem report and the absence of any specific allegation against the applicant of having caused mental or physical harassment to the deceased soon before her death in relation to demand of dowry, the applicant was held entitled to bail.

Ratio / Principle

The applicant, in custody since 03.09.2025 with no criminal history, was held entitled to bail.

Key takeaways

The bail application was allowed and the applicant directed to be released on bail on a personal bond and two sureties, subject to stated conditions.ratio¶14

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench), Court No. 12 (Pankaj Bhatia, J.), allowed the bail application of Vineet, accused in FIR/Case Crime No. 315 of 2025, P.S. Sandana, District Sitapur, under sections 85, 80(2) BNS and section 3/4 DP Act. Per the FIR, the informant's daughter, married to the applicant, was allegedly killed by the matrimonial family on account of non-payment of dowry; the postmortem attributed the death to antemortem hanging. Holding that there was no specific allegation against the applicant of having caused mental or physical harassment to the deceased soon before her death in relation to a demand of dowry, and noting that the applicant had been in custody since 03.09.2025 with no criminal history, the Court released him on bail on a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- each, subject to conditions of attending hearings, abstaining from similar offences, and not tampering with evidence or dissuading witnesses.

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW

CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11392 of 2025

Vineet

.....Applicant(s)

Versus

State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko

.....Opposite Party(s)

Counsel for Applicant(s) Counsel for Opposite Party(s)	: Santosh Kumar Kanaujia : G.A

Court No. - 12

HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J.

Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record.

The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.315 of 2025 under sections 85, 80(2) BNS and section 3/4 DP Act, P.S. Sandana, District Sitapur.

In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was married to the applicant and sufficient dowry was also given, however on account of non-payment of dowry, the entire matrimonial family had killed the daughter. The cause of death, as per the postmortem report, is antemortem hanging.

Considering the post-mortem report and there being no specific allegation against the applicant of having caused the mental or physical harassment to the deceased soon before her death in relation to demand of dowry, the applicant who is in custody since 03.09.2025 and has no criminal history is entitled for the bail. Thus the bail application is allowed.

Let the applicant Vineet be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to her furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions:

(a) The applicant shall execute a bond to undertake to attend the hearings;

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(b) The applicant shall not commit any offence similar to the offence of which he is accused or suspected of the commission; and

(c) The applicant shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence.

(Pankaj Bhatia,J.)

November 19, 2025

VNP/-

Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench