..(1).. 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.352 OF 2008 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.288 OF 2008 Nitin Ramdas Jadhav. ..Applicant. Versus The State of Maharashtra. ..Respondent. .... Mr.S.A.Sawant, Adv. a/w. Mr.Sachin D. Kadam, Adv. for the Appellant. Mr.V.B.Konde-Deshmukh, APP, for the State. .... CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. DATED : 13th June, 2008. DATED : 13th June, 2008. DATED : 13th June, 2008. P.C.: 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the applicant-orig.accused and the learned APP for the State. 2. The applicant-orig. accused has been convicted under Section 376 of IPC and is sentenced to seven years RI. The applicant is now seeking bail. 3. The learned Counsel for the applicant states that the applicant was on bail during the trial and he has not misused the liberty granted to him. This statement has not been controverted ..(2).. by the prosecution. 4. The evidence of the prosecutrix clearly shows that she was in love with the applicant and an intimacy had developed between them. She has also stated that she left the house of her father willingly and thereafter she got married to the applicant. No doubt the prosecutrix was 15 years and 7 months old at the time of the offence and hence it is a case of statutory rape. However, looking to the evidence on record, I am inclined to grant bail to the applicant. 5. The applicant - Nitin Ramdas Jadhav be released on bail in the sum of Rs.10,000/- (Rs.Ten Thousand Only) with one or two sureties to make up the said amount. 6. Application is disposed of accordingly. (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.) (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.) (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.)