CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DR. ANSHUMAN ORAL ORDER

2 03-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in connection with Madhuban P.S. Case No. 180 of 2025, dated 29.05.2025, lodged under Sections 80 & 3(5) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 (hereinafter referred to as “BNS, 2023”).

3. As per the prosecution, FIR has been lodged against eight named accused persons, including the present petitioner, alleging that all the accused, in connivance with each other, used to demand dowry, due to which the informant’s daughter was killed.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence. He further submits that the petitioner is the married nanad and used to live in her sasural, and she has nothing to do with the family business of her brother. He further submits that only with a view to create pressure she was made an accused. He further submits that from the place of occurrence, the mother-in-law (saas) of the deceased was arrested, but subsequently she was granted bail by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 21.08.2025 passed in Cr. Misc.