JUDGMENT

R. Raghunandan Rao, J. - The petitioner is accused No.4 in Crime No.159 of 2022 of I Town Police Station, Kakinada District for the offences punishable under Sections 120B, 302, 201, 109 read with Section 34 IPC. He was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on 16.09.2022 and has remained in judicial custody since then. The present application has been filed for grant of bail.

2. The allegations in the complaint against the petitioner herein are:

A.1 had developed close intimacy with A.2 and A.3 separately. On the advice of A.3, A.1 is said to have decided to kill her husband. For this purpose, A.1 started administering three or four sleeping pills to the deceased husband every night by mixing them in the meals or tiffin consumed by the deceased husband. These sleeping pills were supplied by A.3. Later A.2 is said to have asked A.1 to increase the number of sleeping pills that she was mixing in the meals of the deceased. About one week prior to the demise of the deceased husband, A.3 is said to have supplied a chloroform bottle to A.1. On 22.06.2022, A.1 and A.2 together applied chloroform to the deceased husband and thereby killed the deceased husband. A.3 is said to have