ORDER :

1. These are first bail applications filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for grant of anticipatory bail to the applicants who have been arrested in connection with Crime No. 06/2021, registered at Police Station - Mahila Thana, Ambikapur, District Ambikapur (Sarguja) (CG), for the offence punishable under Sections 34, 294, 313, 323, 498(A) of IPC and Section 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act.

2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that the marriage of complainant Rumana Khan was solemnized with the applicant in MCRCA No. 276/2021 namely Arshad Khan on 23.10.2016 and thereafter, the applicants treated the complainant with cruelty due to which she also suffered miscarriage and consequently, she left her matrimonial home on 24.02.2017 and came to stay with her parents.

3. Mr. K.A. Ansari, learned senior counsel appearing for the applicants, would submit that the applicants have not committed any offence and they have falsely been implicated in the crime in question as the complainant left her matrimonial home on 24.02.2017 and started residing with her parents at Ambikapur whereas the FIR was lodged on 30.01.2021 and there is no explanation for lodging the