Chandigarh: Wife denied anticipatory bail in cheating case

Tribune news service

Chandigarh, September 21

A local court here has rejected the anticipatory bail application of a woman facing cheating charges.

The case was registered against the woman on the complaint of her husband, who alleged that the accused cheated him at the time of marriage by concealing the fact the she was a divorcee.

The accused was booked under Sections 406, 417 and 120-B of the IPC in May 2021.

In his complaint, the husband alleged that their marriage had been solemnised in 2018 as per the Hindu rituals.

He alleged that he spent huge amount of money on the marriage.

In the last week of September, 2019, he came to know his wife was a divorcee. He claimed that the woman, along with her parents, had presented herself as unmarried on a matrimonial site, said the police.

The counsel of the accused argued that the custodial interrogation of the applicant was not required. The co-accused have already been granted interim bail and allowed to join in the investigation.

Nothing is to be recovered from her custody and she is ready to join the investigation, the counsel added.

The public prosecutor though opposed the anticipatory bail application, claiming that the applicant had committed the act of cheating and criminal breach of trust.

The public prosecutor also feared that the applicant, if given concession of anticipatory bail, will flee the country.

After hearing the arguments, the court observed that in light of the charges leveled in the FIR coupled with the fact that the applicant was required for detailed interrogation, she could not be granted any relief.

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