JUDGMENT :

N.V. RAMANA, CJI.

1. Leave granted.

2. The present Criminal Appeals, by way of Special Leave, raise common question of law and are therefore being disposed of together.

3. In both the impugned orders, the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, while dismissing the anticipatory bail application of the respondents-accused, granted them 90 days to surrender before the Trial Court to seek regular bail and granted them protection from coercive action for the said period. Aggrieved by the grant of such relief, the complainants in both the matters are currently in appeal before us.

4. As only a question of law is being raised, it is not necessary for this Court to advert to the facts of both the matters extensively. It is sufficient to point out that in the first case, pertaining to Nathu Singh, the appellant’s daughter was married to respondent no. 2 in that case on 14.02.2014. As she died under suspicious circumstances in her matrimonial home on 02.01.2021, the complainant registered FIR No. 07/2021 at police station Masuri, Ghaziabad under Sections 304B and 498A, IPC read with Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act against the respondents nos. 2 to 5.

5. In the second case,