1 APPA-1423-11.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Mhi CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1423 OF 2011 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1271 OF 2006 Amar Mahadeorao Kale ... Applicant (Orig. accused No.4) vs. The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Mr. K.S.Patil, i/b. Prashant Hegare,Advocate, for the applicant. Mr.Y.S.Shinde,APP for the respondent - State. CORAM: J.H.BHATIA,J. DATE : 9th November, 2011. P.C. 1. The appeal filed by the applicant against conviction for the offences punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149, 324,325 read with Section 149 of IPC and sentence for R.I. for five years with fine is pending before this Court. He has been granted bail pending appeal. By this application, he seeks stay/suspension to the impugned judgment and order of the conviction and sentence on the ground that he intends to contest Municipal election. 2. As after the trial, the applicant has been convicted by the trial Court,there is reason to presume that he has committed the offence, though it is 2 APPA-1423-11.sxw subject to result of appeal. He was awarded rigorous imprisonment for five years for the offence under Section 325 of IPC. It will certainly be not in the public interest that the order of conviction and sentence be suspended allow him to contest the election. In fact, it will be in the public interest that such persons with criminal record should be, as far as possible, kept away from the elections. I do not see any valid reason to stay or suspend the impugned judgment and order of conviction and sentence. 3. Therefore, the application stands rejected. (J.H.BHATIA,J.)