Heard the learned counsel for petitioner and

the learned High Court Government Pleader for

respondent/State

and

perused

the

material

available on record.

2.

This petition is filed under Section 439

of Cr.P.C. to enlarge the petitioner on bail in

Cr.No.49/2020 of Guledagudda police station.

3.

Charge-sheet has been filed against the

petitioner for offences punishable under Sections

302, 304-B, 498-A read with Section 34 of IPC and

Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act,

1961.

4.

The

petitioner

is

alleged

to

have

committed the murder of his wife and his mother-

in-law on the night intervening 9/10.08.2020 by

assaulting them with an axe.

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5.

The case of the prosecution is that the

marriage of Ranjeeta with the petitioner took

place about a year and half prior to the date of

incident. The petitioner was unnecessarily picking

up quarrel with his wife and giving her physical

and mental torture and demanding to transfer her

mother’s property in his name. On 09.08.2020 at

about 11 p.m., with an intention to commit the

murder of his wife and mother-in-law, he procured

an axe and went to the Mutt to sleep and after the

victims

slept,

returned

to

his

house,

and

committed the doubl