1 APPLN-5836.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.5836 OF 2010 The State of Maharashtra .... Applicant Vs. Satish Narayan Satpute & Ors. .... Respondents Ms P.P. Bhosale, APP, for the Applicant- State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: JULY 27, 2011 P.C: This is an application for leave to file appeal against the acquittal of the respondents ordered by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Pandharpur for the offence punishable under Section 306 of the IPC. The victim Laxman Ingole had borrowed a sum of Rs.22,000/- from Narayan Satpute and not repaid the loan till Narayan Satpute was murdered. The allegation is that Narayan Satpute's sons, the respondent Nos.1 and 2, wanted Laxman to depose against the murderers of Narayan Satpute which the victim was not ready to and therefore the victim was pressurized and ultimately committed 2 APPLN-5836.10 suicide by consuming poison. The victim and his wife Muktabai were staying alone in their house at village Kadlas, Taluka Sangola. One of their sons was at Sangola and the other was at Mumbai. Muktabai stated that on the incidental night she had gone to sleep after taking sleeping pills because she was possibly suffering from some ailment. On the next day when she got up, she found her husband dead. She had categorically stated that her husband had not repaid the loan taken from Narayan Satpute. She stated that after the death of Narayan Satpute the amount should have been repaid to his sons. In spite of this her son Vilas, who has been examined as PW-5, claimed that the amount had been in fact repaid, casting a doubt on the entire story about the victim being pressurized in order to repay the loan. The view taken by the learned Judge cannot be said to be perverse or improbable. Leave refused. Appeal dismissed. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)