1 BA-1450.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.1450 OF 2011 Mallikarjun Ramchandra Gurav .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri V.V. Purwant for the Applicant. Ms A.A. Mane, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 P.C: 1. This is an application for bail by husband who is alleged to have abetted commission of suicide by his wife. According to her dying declaration recorded before a Magistrate, she stated that on 26-6-2011 her mobile phone rang. When she was talking on the mobile phone, her husband, the applicant, raked up a quarrel asking her as to whose telephone call it was. This led to a verbal duel, as also physical assault by the applicant. The victim states that this led to her losing her balance and she poured kerosene on her person and set herself on fire. Her husband extinguished the 2 BA-1450.11 fire and took her, first, to a local hospital and then to Civil Hospital at Solapur. She stated that the telephone was received from one Vijay Chadrakant Guddewadi, who had given some filthy abuses to her. 2. The learned counsel for the applicant is right in submitting that even if all the allegations are taken at their face value, the applicant s being in jail pending further investigation into this matter may not be warranted. 3. In view of the above, the applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.102 of 2011 of Mandrup Police Station, District Solapur on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of `50,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to `50,000/-. 4. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)