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NEUTRAL CITATION

R/CR.MA/2046/2026 ORDER DATED: 08/05/2026

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD

R/CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION (FOR ANTICIPATORY

BAIL) NO. 2046 of 2026

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TIPENDRA CHIMANBHAI PIYAJA

Versus

STATE OF GUJARAT

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Appearance:

DIPAK N JOSHI(1689) for the Applicant(s) No. 1

MR NILESHKUMAR H PIPALIYA(11747) for the Applicant(s) No.

1

MR AM PAREKH(562) for the Respondent(s) No. 1

MR CHINTAN DAVE, APP for the Respondent(s) No. 1

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CORAM:HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE P. M. RAVAL

Date : 08/05/2026

ORAL ORDER

1. Rule. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor waives service

of notice of rule for respondent – State of Gujarat.

2. By way of this application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya

Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, “BNSS”), the applicant

has prayed for anticipatory bail in the event of arrest in connection

with the FIR being C.R. No. 11191008250788 of 2025, registered

with Chandkheda Police Station, District: Ahmedabad City for the

offences punishable under Sections 108, 115(2), 351(2) and 54 of the

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).

3. Brief facts of the prosecution case are that the daughter of de

facto complainant eloped with the present applicant out of love

and entered into matrimonial relationship by performing Court

marriage on 09.10.2020. It is alleged that after a period of 8-9

months, the daughter of the de facto complainant visited them on

the count that her mother-in-law was taunting her for domestic

works and the present applicant as well as her brother-in-law took

the side of their mother and therefore, on 17.08.2021, they got

separated by executing a Divorce Agreement. Thereafter, again,

the daughter of the de facto complainant started living with the

present applicant at his home in Live-in relationship and in the

year 2023, gave birth to a baby boy out of the said relationship.

However, it is alleged that the present applicant as well as other

co-accused continued mental as well as physical torture and

taunting which eventually led the deceased to commit by jumping

from the flat and on the said facts, the FIR in question came to be

registered.

4. Heard, learned advocate for the applicant as well as the

learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent – State

and learned advocate Mr. A. M. Parekh for the de facto

complainant.

4.1 The learned advocate for the applicant would submit that

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the applicant is an innocent person and is falsely implicated in the

crime in question. He submitted that the applicant and the

deceased were in love and had firstly entered into Court marriage

against the wish and will of the de facto complainant and hence, on

demise of her daughter, who fell from the terrace, as a

counterblast, present FIR has been filed.

4.2 The learned advocate for the applicant would submit that at

the time of incident i.e. on 22.11.2025, the applicant was not

present at the residence and was on an overseas trip and hence,

there cannot be any immediate physical and/or mental torture to

the deceased as alleged.

4.3 The learned advocate for the applicant would submit that

the ingredients of the offence alleged are not fulfilled inasmuch as

there is nothing on record to show any specific, direct or

proximate act on the part of the present applicant which could

have driven the deceased to commit suicide. It is stated that the

allegations in the FIR are general in nature.

4.4 The learned advocate for the applicant submitted that even

otherwise the nature of allegations are such that custodial

interrogation at this stage is