Mother denied bail in double murder case

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, February 16

The court of Additional Sessions Judge Rajeev Goyal has rejected the bail application of a woman facing the charge of killing her two minor children at Burail. The woman was arrested in January last year following a complaint of her husband.

While denying the bail, the Judge said that “…killing of two minor children is gravest of offences and looking to the fact that applicant has been accused of doing so, in my considered opinion, she is not entitled to the concession of regular bail.” The Judge added that the accused might in all likelihood indulge in misusing the concession of bail, if granted, by threatening the witnesses and tampering with the evidence.

The counsel for the accused claimed that the woman was innocent. He also claimed that there was no eyewitness to the crime and the entire case rested on circumstantial evidence.

Additional Public Prosecutor JP Singh opposed the bail while saying that the charges against the accused are serious.

After hearing the arguments, the Judge said it was true that the allegations against the applicant were yet to be proved but while deciding a regular bail application, the court was also required to bear in mind the gravity of offence.

In his complaint, Dashrath had stated that while he had gone out for some work, he received a call from his wife on December 21, 2019, saying that their daughter Komal had died suddenly. Taking the incident as something that was destined to happen, the body was buried.

On January 25 last year, his wife, along with their two-year-old son Divyanshu, went missing. Later, he found his son in the bed while he was taking out a bed sheet. The boy was gagged with a piece of cloth, the complainant had stated. He had alleged that his wife Rupa had planned to eliminate the entire family, adding that she had killed their daughter Komal in December 2019.

The police registered a case and arrested the woman on January 27.