Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 16: While rejecting the anticipatory bail of an accused mother-in-law in the dowry death case registered at Police Station R S Pura, the Additional Sessions Judge Jammu Tahir Khurshid Raina has emphasised on the Government to establish Marriage Counselling Centre in each district for ensuring smooth matrimonial relations.
“By resorting to illegal demands the in-laws not only frustrate the life of their daughter-in-law but even of their own son and pushes it to the brink of disaster as has happened in the instant case”, the court said, adding “what is expected from parents in-law that even if such demands are raised by their son, they should reprimand him in the very first instance and give protection to the daughter in law so that family as a whole is saved from mess and unpleasant happenings “.
“In the instant case if the parents in law would have played a very positive role in the first instance probably they would have been saved from this very awkward situation which they are facing right now at the moment”, the court said, adding “now the unfortunate prevailing situation which the family is facing is that the daughter in law has committed suicide on account of alleged torture, husband and brother-in-law are behind the bars and applicant-accused, who is mother in law, is struggling to be saved from jail. Moreover, innocent of four years is now child of broken family, missing the love and care of all”.
Stating that the dowry death crime is on rise, the Additional Sessions Judge said, “this court has time and again shown its concern for spate in such offences and in its last order in a similar case has appealed for awakening of moral conscious of the society towards this crime so that society at large gets sensitized and awakened to curb this crime to its hilt”, adding “unless society as a whole is not convictionally ready to abhor and oppose it to, laws are not going to succeed in curbing the menace “.
Keeping in view the gravity of this burgeoning crime in the society, the Additional Sessions Judge emphasized on the Govt to establish Marriage Counselling Centre in every district, where especially before the celebration of marriage, the couples along with their family members be called to have parleys with the experts of the field who can guide them how to behave with each other in the new relationship, based on social, moral, ethical and religious sanctions”, adding “I have felt necessity to convey this concern for the reason that the misunderstandings in relationships between daughter-in-law and her in-laws if not settled and shaped up properly results into horrible happenings which finally leads the entire family into mess even sometime culminates into horrible criminal cases like in hand”.
About the instant case, the court said that investigation in the case is going on and the other two accused are behind the bars. “With regard to applicant-accused, the IO has stated at the bar that he was unable to trace her out and has only come to know about her whereabouts when this application was filed before the court”, the Additional Sessions Judge said, adding “it is stated by his counsel that she is under some treatment in Military Hospital Jammu “.
“From the material on record annexed with the application, it is inferred that she stands discharged from the hospital and there is no such material on record which suggests that her ailment is so fatal that she be granted anticipatory bail on this ground in such a serious offence”, the court said while rejecting the application.
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