JUDGMENT

S K Panigrahi, J. - "People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future." Anthony Liccione's statement is epitomized in the present case, where a ghost of the petitioner's past has revivified to haunt her present and wreck her future. The petitioner has filed the instant application under Section 439 of CrPC seeking bail. She is an accused in GR Case No. 4342 of 2019 arising out of Dhanupali PS Case No. 496 of 2019, pending in the court of the learned SDJM, Sambalpur involving the offence under Section 306/34 of IPC.

2. The storyline is brutal in its simplicity as summarized in the FIR. The allegation against the accused/petitioner is that she along with the co-accused have inflicted direct and indirect mental torture on the deceased (Padmalochan Barik) which resulted in the commission of suicide by the deceased. The statement of the witnesses recorded under Section 161 of Cr. PC reveals that the petitioner had tied her nuptial knot with the deceased (Padma lochan) on 21.02.2019.However,prior to her marriage, she was alleged to have been in love relationship with the co-accused Upendra and it was alleged to have continued even after