The Supreme Court recently cancelled the bail granted to a man accused in a dowry death case, noting that the Allahabad High Court committed an “egregious error” in releasing him despite serious allegations. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and Vijay Bishnoi set aside the order granting bail to the accused husband in a case involving the death of his wife while at her matrimonial home within seven years of marriage. “We are at pains to observe that the High Court has not even recorded the facts correctly far from the erroneous line of reasonings assigned for the purpose of grant of bail to the accused in a serious crime like dowry death,” the court observed in its order dated April 30. It cautioned that courts must be careful while granting bail in such serious offences, so that the order should not be seen or read by the society suggesting that serious crimes against women are being taken lightly.…