Supreme Court refuses anticipatory bail to accused husband. CJI Bobde slams the accused husband - what kind of man are you. The man said that his father beat his wife with a cricket bat. The court said - the main responsibility of the injuries received by the in-laws of the woman is that of the husband.
The Supreme Court refused to grant anticipatory bail to the accused husband, whose wife alleged that her husband, mother-in-law and father-in-law beat her with a cricket bat. The Supreme Court refused to grant bail to the person accused of beating his wife. The court said on Monday that if the woman was beaten up at the in-laws' house, her husband would be primarily responsible for her injuries, even if the beating was done by her relatives. In June last year, the woman lodged a complaint with the husband and in-laws in the Ludhiana police. The woman alleged that her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law were beaten up severely for not meeting the increasing dowry demands. What kind of men are you? CJI asked.
When husband's lawyer Kushagra Mahajan repeatedly insisted on anticipatory bail, the bench headed by SA Bobde, the head judge, said, "What kind of a man are you? she (wife) alleges that you were strangling her to death." "They say you forcibly miscarried. What kind of men are you who beat your wife with a cricket bat?"
When Mahajan said that his client's father had beaten the woman with the bat, the CJI-led bench said, "It doesn't matter whether it was you (husband) or your father who allegedly beat her with the bat. When the woman is tortured by the in-laws, the main responsibility is that of the husband''. The court dismissed the person's plea.
Punjab and Haryana High Court also did not give anticipatory bail to her husband. The woman's complaint lodged in the HC stated "Around 9 pm on 12 June 2020, the petitioner (husband) and her father beat up the complainant (wife) badly with a cricket bat. This included the mother of the petitioner. After the beating, the petitioner tried to strangle the complainant and his father put a pillow in the face of the complainant to kill her. The complainant was thrown on the road. On receiving the information, the complainant's father and brother reached there. And got her medico-legal along with her treatment. " The woman alleged that she had been miscarried twice before because of her in-laws beating.
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