CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER

2 28-01-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of anticipatory bail apprehending her arrest in connection with Udwant Nagar P.S. Case no.361 of 2025 registered under sections 80(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023, 3. As per the prosecution case, the informant states that his daughter was married to the son of the petitioner herein. The accused persons including the petitioner tortured his daughter for non-fulfillment of the demand of dowry by way of a gold chain and a motorcycle. She was ultimately done to death.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner, who happens to be the old mother-in-law of the deceased, has been falsely implicated in the case. Besides the allegations being general and omnibus in nature, the petitioner lives separately from her son and the deceased daughter-in-law and has no concern with their day to day affairs. The allegations against the petitioner are false and concocted and all the family members/relatives have thus been made accused in the case. The petitioner who is a lady has no cri