Mahesh Chand vs State of Uttar Pradesh

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2026 Supreme(SC) 477

J. B. PARDIWALA, VIJAY BISHNOI
Mahesh Chand – Appellant
Versus
State of Uttar Pradesh – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, AOR Mr. Anirban Tripathi, Adv. Mrs. Rajshri Dubey, Adv. Mrs. Vatsala, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Amit Shahi, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Rahul Sethi, Adv. Mrs. Rekha Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Dev, Adv. Mr. R Anbhule, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Adv.

ORDER :

1. Leave granted.

2. Mahatma Gandhiji once said, “Any young man who makes dowry a condition to marriage discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.”

3. This appeal arises from the order passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad dated 27.08.2025 in Criminal Miscellaneous Bail Application No. 14304 of 2025 by which the bail application preferred by the respondent no.2 before us (original accused) (husband of the deceased) came to be allowed.

4. We take notice of the fact that the respondent no.2 was married to the deceased. The marriage was solemnized on 08.02.2019. As per the case of the prosecution soon after marriage the husband and his family members started harassing the deceased for want of dowry.

5. On 11.07.2024 the deceased was found dead under suspicious circumstances at her matrimonial home.

6. In such circumstances, the father of the deceased lodged a First Information Report registered as case Crime No. 667 of 2024 dated 12.07.2024 with Kavi Nagar Police Station, District Ghaziabad, State of Uttar Pradesh. The First Information Report reads thus:-

“I respectfully submit that my daughter Ritu Chaudhary was married on 08.02.2019 at Rambagh