The Supreme Court stressed that when a woman dies in circumstances which is not found to be normal, especially in dowry death cases such as when such a woman dies within a few years' time of her marriage, there has to be a stricter scrutiny in regard to such a dowry death case. It added that keeping the accused out on bail would in fact be prejudicial to the interest of justice in the present case given the evidentiary material indicating a nexus of dowry demands and physical cruelty by the accused, with the victim’s death. The Court reiterated that courts will have to dive deeper when it comes to granting bail in dowry death cases so as to not erode the trust of society in justice delivery system.