Court rejects jailed Radio Jockey Kunal’s bail plea

Ahmedabad

A local rural court of Ahmedabab today rejected the bail petition of jailed Radio Jockey Kunal in suicide case of his wife Bhumi, who ended her life on January 21 by jumping off the terrace of a 10-storey residential building in Anandnagar area of the city.

Kunal had surrendered before the police on January 27.

Bhumi’s mother Kavita Panchal had on January 25, lodged a complaint against Kunal and her parents for allegedly compelling her 28 year old daughter to take the extreme step.

Kunal and his parents have termed these allegations baseless.

The police lodged the case under section 498 A (harassment and cruelty against wife for dowry), 306 (abatement of suicide) and 114 (related to abatement of crime) of the IPC and section 3 of the dowry prohibition act.

In her complaint Bhumi’s mother had alleged that Kunal a radio jockey with a private FM radio station, who had married her daughter on November 24 last year, had gone abroad for honeymoon and returned on January 18. He and his parents had demanded Rs 25 lakh from Bhumi and also harassed her.

The rural court in Mirzapur here denied regular bail to Kunal.

– DeshGujarat