MP 1 BA1479_11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO.1479 OF 2011 Deepak @ Pintya Shrirang Sonawane ... Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Mr.Y.M. Nakhwa, APP for the Respondent State. CORAM : J. H. BHATIA, J. DATE : 13TH DECEMBER 2011 P. C. : This application is received through jail whereby the accused applicant seeks bail in crime No.138 of 2010 under Section 302 registered with Wadgaun Maval Police Station, Pune and alternatively seeks direction for early disposal of the trial. 2. Prosecution case appears to be that on 17.08.2010, at about 05.00 p.m., the present applicant was seen with deceased Manohar Sitaram Bhoir, and on the next morning, at 07.00 a.m., dead body of Manohar Bhoir was found with stabbed wounds and other injuries. The motor-cycle of the deceased was found with the accused. Even though there is no eyewitness, it appears that a mobile handset of the deceased, the knife and the stone which were used as weapons in the offence as also the clothes of the accused and the bottle of liquor were recovered at the instance of the accused on 02.09.2010. Prosecution case is that, the accused was a friend of Manohar Bhoir and they used to consume liquor together. As the deceased had stopped providing liquor, on 17.08.2010, the accused had taken Manohar with him under the pretext of drinking liquor, and thereafter Manohar was never seen alive. MP 2 BA1479_11 3. Taking into consideration the circumstantial evidence noted above, it will not be in the interests of justice to grant bail to the applicant. However, it will be appropriate to expedite the trial and dispose of the case as early as possible. 4. Therefore, the application for bail stands rejected but the concerned Additional Sessions Judge, Pune is hereby directed to expedite the trial and dispose of the case as early as possible, and in any case, by the end of June 2012 without fail. 5. The accused be informed accordingly through the Superintendent, Yerwada Central Jail, Pune. (J. H. BHATIA, J)