IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 919 OF 2006 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 919 OF 2006 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 919 OF 2006 Uday Motiram Shirgaonkar. ...Applicant V/s. State of Maharashtra. ...Respondent S/Shri A.A. Swadi with N.V. Gangal for Applicant. Ms.M.M. Deshmukh, APP for the State. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATED : MARCH 7, 2006 DATED : MARCH 7, 2006 DATED : MARCH 7, 2006 P.C. :- P.C. :- P.C. :- . Heard learned Counsel for the applicant and learned APP for the State. . The applicant is seeking anticipatory bail in connection with an offence punishable under Sections 498A, 306 read with Section 34 of the IPC. The deceased i.e. the wife of the applicant committed suicide on 7th January, 2006. The applicant was informed about the said fact by his colleague. He immediately rushed to his house and saw that his wife was completely burnt. Immediately, he took her to the Oros hospital alongwith neighbours and reamined there to do whatever he could do to save her life. Three days after her death, a - 2 - complaint was lodged by the brother of the deceased. 2. It is submitted that the applicant had not treated her with cruelty. The parents of the girl are present in the Court today and they have instructed the learned APP that the deceased had never made any complaint against the applicant or her inlaws. 3. Taking into consideration the instructions given by the parents of the deceased to the learned APP, in my view, this is a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail. In the event of the arrest of the applicant in connection with an offence which is registered with the Oros Police Station vide C.R. No.2/2006, the applicant be released on bail in the sum of Rs.5000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. The applicant shall co-operate with the Investigating Officer. . The application is disposed of. (V.M. Kanade, J.) (V.M. Kanade, J.) (V.M. Kanade, J.)