JUDGMENT :

(Manisha Batra, J.) :

The present appeal has been filed under Section 14-A (2) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short ‘the SC/ST Act’) by the appellants challenging the order dated 17.01.2022 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Karnal in Bail Application No. 34 of 2022 filed by the appellants/accused in case arising out of FIR No. 699 dated 22.12.2021, registered under Sections 323, 354-A, 406, 498-A, 506, 509, 34 of IPC and Section 3(2)(va) of SC/ST Act at Police Station Sector 32/33, Karnal, whereby the above said application of the appellants for grant of anticipatory bail had been dismissed.

2. Brief facts relevant for the purpose of disposal of this appeal are that the aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of a written complaint filed by respondent No. 2/complainant alleging therein that she was married with the appellant No. 1 Gunjan Gogia on 19.02.2019 according to Sikh rites and ceremonies. Her parents had spent an amount of more than Rs. 20 Lakhs in the marriage and gold ornaments, furniture and other articles were given to the appellants in the form of dowry. She alleged that the appellan