NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has set aside a bail order granted by the Allahabad High Court to a man accused in a dowry death case, terming it as "one of the most shocking and disappointing orders" it has come across in recent times.
A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan allowed the appeal filed by the father of the deceased woman and directed the accused — the husband of the deceased — to immediately surrender before the trial court and be sent to judicial custody.
The dowry death case was registered at Kotwali Bhinga Police Station in Uttar Pradesh’s Shrawasti district for offences under Sections 85 and 80(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.