1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRI.APPLICATION NO. 2766 OF 2009 1. Rajendra Sahadu Lokhande, 2. Kalawati Sahadu Lokhande, .. Applicants Vs State of Maharashtra .. Respondent Mr. Nitin Pradhan, Sr. Counsel i/b S.D.Khot, Advocate for the Applicants. Mr. K.V.Saste, APP, for the Respondent. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATE : 06/07/2009 PC: 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants and learned APP for the respondent. 2. The applicants are seeking anticipatory bail in C.R.No.62 of 2009 of Vani Police Station, Nashik. The said crime has been registered against the applicants for having allegedly committed an offence punishable under sections 498-A, 306, 323, 504, 506 r/w 34 of IPC. 3. The prosecution case, in short is that the deceased- Jyoti, was subjected to harassment by all the accused with a view to T 2 coercing her and her parents to meet their unlawful demand of monies which drove her to commit suicide by jumping in the well on 11.6.2009. I perused the FIR and the other material placed before the court. From the FIR, it appears that all the allegations made against the present applicants pertained to the period more than four years prior to the incident of suicide. It further appears that in March 2009 and June, 2009 there were incidents, where the husband had assaulted the deceased and had also given her threats that he would marry another woman. Insofar as these incidents are concerned, there are no allegations against the present applicants. The applicant no.2 is 70 years old woman. Keeping that in view and considering that applicant no.1 is Bank Manager and is a permanent resident of some other village and was not staying with the deceased and her husband at the relevant time, I am inclined to grant this application for anticipatory bail. Hence, the following order. In the event of arrest, both the applicants be released on bail in the sum of Rs.5,000/- each with one or two sureties to make up the said amount, subject to the conditions incorporated in sub-section (2) of Section 438 of Cr.P.C. Further, the applicants are directed to report to the concerned police station on every alternate day between 10 am 3 and 12 noon till 20.7.2009 and thereafter as and when called. While passing this order I shall not be understood to have expressed any opinion on merits of the case and the trial Court shall deal with the case uninfluenced by the observations made in this order. Application is disposed of. (D. B. Bhosale, J.)