1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, APPELLATE SIDE NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR CRIMINAL APPLICATION (BA) NO. 340 OF 2011 ( Anil Wamanrao Supatkar Vs. State of Mah. PSO PS Jalalkheda Tah.Narkhed Distt. Nagpur) ........................................................................................................................................................................ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court orders or directions Court's or Judge's Order and Registrar's orders ........................................................................................................................................................................ Shri S. M. Nafde Adv for applicant. Shri S. M. Bhagde APP for non applicant/State. CORAM: M. N. GILANI J. DATED: 20th JUlLY, 2011. . Applicant has been arrested on 26.05.2011 in connection with Crime No. 26 of 2011 registered at Police Station Jalakheda Tahsil Narkhed District Nagpur, for the offences punishable under Section 498-A and 306 of Indian Penal Code. Rekha (since deceased) was married to applicant in the year 2000. They have two children out of this wedlock. On 25.05.2011 in the noon while the deceased and the applicant were in the house, the deceased sustained about 85% burns. She was carried to the Medical College Hospital Nagpur. Her written dying declaration was not taken down. However, she had disclosed to her father that while she was cooking food she got burns. The 2 other relevant factors are Panchanama showing existence of the stove and the burn injuries sustained by the applicant. It is the case of the applicant that, after seeing her wife engulfed in the fire, he tried to extinguish it and then brought her to the hospital. Statements of the relations who met the deceased in the hospital, point out that the deceased had made similar disclosures i. e. ‘she got burns while she was cooking food’, to them. In view of this, there is no reason to deny bail to the applicant. Hence applicant is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing PR bond in the sum of Rs. 25,000/- with two sureties in the like amount, on the condition to attend the Police Station Jalalkheda Tal. Narkhed Distt. Nagpur as and when called till the charge sheet is filed. JUDGE svk 3 From the date of taking charge i.e. from 17.03.2011 till 06.05.2011 His Lordship Hon'ble Shri Justice M.N. Gilani was sitting at High Court Bombay.