1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRI. APPLICATION NO. 486 OF 2009 The State of Maharashtra ...Applicant Versus Magdum Lalsaheb Nadaf ...Respondent Dr. F.R. Shaikh, Additional Public Prosecutor, for the Applicant. CORAM: B ILAL NAZKI and A.R. JOSHI, JJ. DATE: OCTOBER 5, 2009 P.C.:- This is an application seeking leave to appeal against acquittal of the accused for an offence under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code. 2. Even the father of the prosecutrix had deposed that the accused and the alleged victim were living together as husband and wife. Even during the trial, the prosecutrix did not depose that the accused had committed any rape on her. 2 She had only stated that she was living with him like his wife, and the accused promised that he would marry her. Later on, he did not marry her. 3. We do not find that this is a case in which the order of acquittal can be reversed. The application is dismissed. BILAL NAZKI, J. A.R. JOSHI, J.