This bail application relating to Crime No. 353 of 1992 under Sections 323, 304, and 504, I. P. C. of P. S. Puranpur, distict Pilibhit reveals that a large section of our people are mentally still living in the middle ages and are feudal minded. They look upon women as chattel or inferiors. This state of affairs will no longer be tolerated by this Court.

2. The facts are that the applicant No. 1 Maya Prakash was married to Guddi Devi, daughter of the first informant Jagannath. The allegations in the first information report are that Guddi Devi had come to her fathers house. The applicant No. 1 Maya Prakash (husband of Guddi Devi) along with the other co- accused came to the house of Jagannath, father of Guddi Devi on 26-1-1992 and demanded that Guddi be sent with them. When Jagannath said that they can take her after a few days, the applicants started hurling abuses, and when Jagannath requested them to stop abusing the applicants started beating Jagannath with Suriya, fists and legs. The injured Jagannath (father of Guddi) subsequently died as a result of these injuries. A true copy of the post mortem report is annxure-3 to the affidavit filed in support of the appli