wife gets bail in hubby torture case

KOLKATA: Calcutta high court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to a woman accused of beating up her husband. The breather came with conditions for Rina Dhar, a resident of Siliguri. She has been told not to leave the jurisdiction of Siliguri police station without the court's permission and to meet the investigating officer in the case three days a week.

Rina's husband, Debashish Dhar, a central excise and customs inspector posted in Siliguri, had filed a police complaint alleging that his wife and in-laws have been physically and mentally torturing him since February 2008 and that they had forcibly taken money from him after the marriage. He said that the torment had driven him to try to commit suicide in June 2008 but he was saved by a neighbour.

The joint commissioner, central excise, Siliguri, also filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission in October 2008 over the issue. The commission directed the Darjeeling SP to probe the matter. When the SP did not act, Debashish moved Calcutta high court, alleging police inaction. The court directed Dhar to move the Darjeeling chief judicial magistrate.

The Darjeeling Court then directed police to investigate the case and, if necessary, arrest Rina. She then filed for anticipatory bail.

Rina's counselMilon Mukherjee pleaded before a division bench of Justice Ashim Kumar Banerjee and Justice RaghunathRay that it was merely a case of marital quarrel and pleaded that the court grant Rina anticipatory bail so that relations between the couple does not worsen.

StatecounselPradip Ray opposed the petition, but the court granted the accused anticipatory bail considering that the petitioner was a woman.

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