2019 MURDER CASE: DELHI HC DENIES BAIL PLEA TO WOMAN ACCUSED

The Delhi High Court has recently rejected the bail plea of a woman accused in the murder case of her live-in partner in September 2019.

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The high court stated that the statements of hostile witnesses can’t be discarded in toto.

The accused was living with one Sunil after leaving her husband and 3-year-old child. She has been in judicial custody since September 19, 2019.

Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar dismissed the bail plea of Anita Chetri after considering the facts and submissions by the defence and prosecution.

Justice Bhatnagar observed that though the petitioner has a child, as per the testimony of her husband who has been examined as a prosecution witness, she has even left the child and started living with Sunil (since deceased), and she is not supporting any child as her child is living with her estranged husband.

Justice Bhatnagar stated in the judgement passed on October 17, 2023,”Therefore, in these facts and circumstances, no ground for bail is made out. The bail application is, therefore, dismissed.”

The high court stated, “However, the learned trial court to dispose of this case as expeditiously as possible.”

It was the case of the petitioner herself that deceased Sunil was alive when she left the house, and she had even talked to him during the intervening night of September 9 and 10, 2019 and they had been living in the stated house for almost last a year and no robbery or dacoity was committed in the said house on the date of the incident.