JUDGMENT :

Ravindra Maithani, J.

Applicant Puran Singh is in judicial custody in Case Crime No. 03 of 2022 (Sessions Trial No. 03 of 2023), under Sections 304B and 498A IPC, Revenue Sub-Inspector Circle Harmani, District Chamoli. He has sought his release on bail.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

3. According to the FIR, the deceased and the applicant were married on 23.05.2018, but on 05.05.2022 the father of the deceased was informed that the deceased had died. The FIR records that the deceased was also harassed for the demand of dowry.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that it is not a case of dowry death; the deceased committed suicide because she was in depression as she was not begetting any child.

5. Learned State counsel would submit that soon before her death, the deceased was subjected to cruelty.

6. It is a stage of bail. Much of the discussion is not expected of. Arguments are being appreciated with the caveat that any observation made in this order shall have no bearing at any subsequent stage of the trial or in any other proceedings.

7. It is a case death of a woman within seven years of marriage other than under normal circumst