CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER

4 18-12-2025 1. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. This application, for grant of anticipatory bail, arises out of Gaurichak Police Station Case No. 483 of 2024, disclosing offences under Sections 80 and 3(5) of the BNS, 2023.

3. As per the FIR, the marriage of the co-accused Sunny Kumar was solemnized with the informant's daughter on 22.04.2024. It has been alleged that, after the marriage, the petitioners along with other accused persons started demanding dowry, and due to non-fulfillment of the demand, the informant's daughter has been killed by the petitioners and others by strangulation.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no. 1 is brother-in-law of the deceased, petitioner no. 2 is sister-in-law and petitioner no. 3 is mother-in-law of the deceased. Allegations against the petitioners are general and omnibus in nature. The husband is in custody and his confessional statement was recorded by the police in which he has stated that the deceased was having love affair with some other boy, and when objected by the husband, she committe