1 APPA-G-431.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.431 OF 2011 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.260 OF 2011 Vijay Sadashiv Kamble .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent WITH CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.559 OF 2011 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.260 OF 2011 Vijay Sadashiv Kamble & Ors. .... Applicants Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Ms S.D. Khot with Ms A. Kuttikrishnan for the Applicants. Ms M.M. Deshmukh, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: JUNE 07, 2011 P.C: While Criminal Application No.431 of 2011 is filed by the original accused No.1 Vijay Sadashiv Kamble praying for suspension of 2 APPA-G-431.11 his conviction, Criminal Application No.559 of 2011 is filed by the original accused Nos.1 to 3 praying for bail. The learned counsel for the applicants states that she would not press for suspension of the conviction and at this stage would seek only suspension of sentence of RI for three years imposed upon the applicants and who were on bail throughout the trial. At the time of recording the conviction, the learned Sessions Judge has also suspended the sentence till the period of appeal is over. The applicants have been convicted for the offences punishable under Sections 306 and 498-A r/w Section 34 of the IPC. The learned APP has a very strong objection to the suspension of sentence contending that the victim was a teacher in a reputed school in Mumbai, doing her Ph.D. and was also pregnant at that time and therefore except for cruelty there could be no other ground for her to commit suicide. This could of course be gone into when the appeal is heard on merits. Considering the pendency of appeals before this Court and the impossibility of taking up the present appeal for hearing in the near future, considering the nature of the sentence, since the applicants would be available for suffering the sentence should the appeal be dismissed, the substantive sentence 3 APPA-G-431.11 imposed upon the applicants is suspended on their furnishing fresh bonds of the same amount on which they were bailed out during the pendency of the appeal. Both the criminal applications accordingly stand disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)