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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

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CRM-M-60876-2025 (O&M) Date of Decision: 07.04.2026

MAHINDER KAUR @ KATTA ......Petitioner

Versus STATE OF PUNJAB

.....Respondent

CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. Naveen Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Yadwinder Singh, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. Raman Kumar, Advocate and Ms. Kulwinder Kaur, Advocate for the complainant.

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KIRTI SINGH, J. (ORAL)

1. This is the third petition filed under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (for short- ‘BNSS’), for grant of regular bail to the petitioner, in case FIR No.50 dated 11.05.2024, under Sections 306, 34 IPC (Section 304-B IPC added later on vide DDR No.20 dated 04.07.2024),

registered at Police Station Mehatpur, District Jalandhar.

2. The contents of the FIR are reproduced below:-

“Statement of Surinder Singh son of Rachhpal Singh, resident of Khurshedpur, PS Sidhwan Bet, District Ludhiana aged about 48 years, Mobile No.99143-xxxx. Stated that I am resident of above said address and engaged in agriculture work. I have four children, three daughters and one son. My elder daughter xxx aged 23 years who was married with Jaswinder Singh son of Surjeet Singh, resident of Chohle Ban, PS Mehatpur from 2019 whose son Fatenveer Singh is aged about 8 months. My daughter Navjot Kaur's in-laws family in which husband Jaswinder Singh, father-in-law Surjeet Singh son of Harnam Singh, mother-in-law xxxx wife of Surjeet Singh, residents of Chohle Ban who were quarreling and beating my daughter xxxx after sometime of marriage. My daughter told about this many times that my above said in-laws family are

SWARNJIT SINGH

2026.04.07 18:25 beating me and are harassing me. Being fed up with them, I will end I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document

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my life but I and my family members had understanding my daughter for saving her home and my daughter agreeing and were living in her in-laws family. Today morning i and my family members were present in our house at village Khurshedpur. At about 11 AM, my relative Surjeet Singh called me that xxxxx has consumed some intoxicating substance who is serious who has to be brought at Ludhiana Hospital. Upon which, I and my father Rachhpal Singh, mother xxxx and other family members came to the village Chhole from our village. Then they were found standing at Sidhwan Bet with the dead body taken from Kulwant Hospital. Sidhwan Ret who told me that xxxx is dead. Upon which, we came to her in-laws family at village Chhole with the dead body of xxxxx. My daughter xxxxx being fed up from the beatings of her husband Jaswinder Singh, mother-in- law xxxx, father-in-law Surjeet Singh, has ended her life by consuming some poisonous substance. My daughter's husband Jaswinder mother-in-law Singh, xxxxx, father-in-law Surjeet Singh are responsible for consumption of some poisonous substance by my daughter xxxx and her ended her life. Appropriate legal action be taken against them. Regarding which today i along with my father Rachhpal Singh have come before you and recorded the statement,

heard which is correct.”

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner, being the mother-in-law of the deceased, has been falsely implicated in the present case on the basis of the statement made by the father of the deceased. It is submitted that the marriage between the deceased and Jaswinder Singh, son of the petitioner, was solemnized on 14.11.2019 and during the subsistence of the marriage no matrimonial complaint was ever lodged against the petitioner or her family members. Learned counsel contends that neither have any specific allegations been attributed to the petitioner regarding any act of cruelty or demand of dowry which could have led the deceased to commit suicide, nor is there any material on record that points towards the commission of the any offence by the petitioner. In fact, it is stated that the decease