-1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 77 OF 2010 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1392 OF 2004 Vikas Ganpatrao Sonar ... Applicant versus The State of Maharashtra and another ... Respondents Mr. N.R. Bubna for the applicant. Mrs. M.M. Deshmukh, APP, for the State. CORAM: P.B. MAJMUDAR & R.G. KETKAR, JJ. DATE: FEBRUARY 22, 2010. P.C. This application is preferred by the original accused with a prayer that the appeal may be dismissed or disposed off in view of the compromise arrived at between the applicant an respondent No.2. The appeal is filed against an order of acquittal by the State. The offence in question is under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 498-A of the Criminal Procedure Code. So far as the offence under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code is concerned, it is not compoundable one. Therefore, there is no question of disposing of the Appeal on the ground of so-called settlement. The prayer of the applicant on this ground cannot be granted. The application is accordingly rejected. -2- 2. The learned counsel for the applicant, however, submitted that since the appeal is of the year 2004 and more than six years have passed, the same may be fixed for hearing immediately. Though we are not impressed by the fact that the appeal is required to be disposed of in view of the settlement, however, considering the fact that appeal is pending since more than six years, we fix the appeal for hearing on 10th March, 2008, as the Court is informed that the appeal is ripe for hearing and the Registry has received the record and proceedings from the lower court. Subject to what is stated hereinabove, the application is rejected. P. B. MAJMUDAR, J. R.G. KETKAR, J.