1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 4412 OF 2008 Ravindra Magan Chavan ..... Applicant. v/s The State of Maharashtra ...... Respondent. ------ Mr. Amin Solkar for the apoplicant. Mr. Rajesh More, APP for the State. ------ CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATE : 22nd January, 2009 P.C.:- 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the applicant and the learned APP for the State. 2. Applicant has been arrested in connection with the offence punishable under sections 302, 201 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. A dead body was located on the road and, in the postmortem, it was found that there was a single injury on the head of the deceased. The case of the prosecution is that, thereafter, one person who was a juvenile was arrested and his statement was recorded under section 164. In the said statement, the juvenile has stated that he was driving a motor- cycle and the deceased and his cousin alongwith the present applicant were riding on that motor- cycle. There 2 was altercation between accused No.1 and the deceased and the juvenile heard a bang and after that he stopped his motor- cycle. The deceased slumped down on the ground and the other two accused ran away. 4. The learned Counsel for the applicant submits that the juvenile has been released on bail. No role has been attributed to the present applicant. There is no material to indicate that the applicant had shared common intention of accused No.1. Charge-sheet has already been filed. There are no prior antecedents so far as present applicant is concerned. 5. Under these circumstances, applicant be released on bail in the sum of Rs 5000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. He shall report to the concerned Police Station once in a month. 6. Application is disposed of. (V.M. KANADE, J.)