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VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA
Shabeen Ahmad – Appellant
Versus
State of Uttar Pradesh – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
VIKRAM NATH, J.
1. Leave granted.
2. These four criminal appeals have been preferred by the common Appellant (original complainant) against four separate orders of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (Lucknow Bench), granting bail to the respective Respondent No. 2 in each of the following Special Leave Petitions:
(ii) SLP (Crl.) No. 11355/2024 (Respondent No. 2: Original Accused No. 2, Mukhtar Ahmad, father-in-law of the deceased),
(iii) SLP (Crl.) No. 015157/2024 (Respondent No. 2: Original Accused No. 5, Ayasha Khan, sister-in-law of the deceased),
(iv) SLP (Crl.) No. 015158/2024 (Respondent No. 2: Original Accused No. 4, Saba, sister-in-law of the deceased).
Since the factual matrix is the same for all of these cases, these appeals are being considered together for disposal.
3. The Appellant’s case arises from FIR No. 0032/2024 registered at Police Station Kotwali Nagar, District Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, for alleged offences punishable under Sections 498A and 304B of the Indian Penal Code1 [In short “IPC”] along with Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Pr
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