A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a Criminal Appeal filed by Shivbahadur Verma directed the dowry murder accused, who has been sentenced to half the sentence, to be released on bail as there is no possibility of hearing of the matter in near future.
The Bench of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice V. Ramasubranian granted bail to Sopan, convicted for the offence of demand of dowry and dowry death of his wife. Sachin Pahwa , advocate for the Petitioner Sopan apprised the Bench that he has already undergone 5 years of his sentence.