1 appln 4504 of 2009 vks IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 4504 OF 2009 The State of Maharashtra .. Applicant. -versus Nandkumar Narayan Nair and ors .. Respondents. Mrs. P. P. Bhosale, for the Applicant. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: 17th June, 2011 P.C. 1. This is an application for leave to file appeal against acquittal of the respondents for offence punishable under Sections 498-A and 306 read with 34 of the Indian penal Code, recorded by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Pune. All the allegations against the respondents have surfaced after the victim committed suicide on 3rd March, 2005. She was married to respondent on 28th August, 2002. The alleged illtreatment was meted out to victim Shreeja before respondent No.1 picked up the victim to their native place in Kerala. They returned to Pune on 2nd March, 2005. P.W.1 and 2, the parents of the victim, do not state having met Shreeja till she committed suicide after her return from Kerala. Therefore, the learned Judge rightly held the evidence about illtreatment in Kerala which preceded commission of suicide cannot be relied. The findings recorded by the learned Judge 2 appln 4504 of 2009 on proper appreciation of evidence cannot be faulted. Leave refused. Appeal dismissed. (R. C. CHAVAN, J.)