JUDGMENT :

KIRTI SINGH, J. 

1. The jurisdiction of this Court under Section 483 BNSS, 2023 has been invoked for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.24 dated 26.04.2024 under Sections 306 & 34 IPC, registered at Police Station Mattewal, District Amritsar.

2. The translated version of the FIR is reproduced below:-

“State of Sukhwinder Singh son of Kartar Singh resident of Gadaryada Tehsil Baba Bakala, District Amritsar aged around 61 years, Mobile No. 98553-xxxxx. Stated that I am resident of above mentioned address and am doing Labour work and I have 2 sons and 3 daughters, my younger daughter xxxxxx whose marriage was around solemnized around 10 years back with Jatinder Singh son of Paramjit Singh resident of Kotla Sharaf Tehsil Batala, District Gurdaspur, who is having 2 sons age of elder son is around 8 years and age of younger son is around 4/5 years, after 2 years of marriage itself my son-in-law Jatinder Singh above named used to assault my daughter after doing drugs, his mother xxxx wife of Paramjit Singh r/o Kotla Sharaf Tehsil Batala Gurdaspur also used to support him. They had oust my daughter on number of after asssaulting her, compromise was arrived at intervention of respectable persons of the Panchayat and joint relatives, it happens on number of occasions, mother-in-law of my daughter never scolded his son Jatinder Singh and always used to humiliate her repeatedly whereby my daughter xxxx xxxx started remaining upset, she told me and to my wife on number of times that it is better to die than such like life, but we kept on exhorting her always that you have 02 sons and do not talk like this, now 05 days ago itself my son- in-law Jatinder Singh and mother-in-law of my daughter xxxxx assaulted my daughter xxxxx and had oust her out of the house. Then my daughter xxxxx had come to us, who told that her husband xxxxx are torturing her a lot and have made her life a living hell and she is fed up from them and she has to end her life, today on dated 26.04.2024 in the morning, I had gone out of the house for doing Labour work then I got message at around 1:00 hours in a day that my daughter xxxxxxx above named has consumed some poisonous substance, to whom we admitted in Guru Ramdass Hospital Walla, Amritsar by making arrangement of vehicle, who died during undergoing treatment, my daughter xxxxx after being fed up from her husband Jatinder Singh and mother-in-law xxxxx have ended her life by consuming some poisonous substance, I am the claimant, legal action may be initiated against my son-in-law Jatinder Singh son of Paramjit Singh and mother-in-law of my daughter xxxx w/o Paramjit Singh residents of Kotla Sharaf Police Station Sadar, Batala, District Gurdaspur.."

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case on the statement of the complainant-father of the deceased. It is submitted that the deceased was residing happily in her matrimonial home along with the petitioner and her two children. Any issues between the two were trivial matrimonial disputes, faced by all married couples, given that the parties had been married for over 10 years. Furthermore, 05 days prior to the alleged incident, the deceased had gone to her parental home with the children to spend holidays, where she unfortunately died. There is neither any direct or substantial evidence on record to link the petitioner with the alleged offences, nor corroborative material on record to implicate the petitioner. It is submitted that in the present case, the ingredients of Section 306 IPC in fact not even prima facie are not made out against the petitioner. It is also submitted that vide order dated 24.3.2025 passed by this Court in CRM-M-37700-2024, similarly situated co-accused Lakhwinder Kaur (mother-in-law) has been granted the concession of anticipatory bail. Moreover, the statement of the child of the deceased has been annexed in the status report dated 05.11.2024 (in CRM- M