- 1 - IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4434/2010 Pappu @ Balwant Sahebrao Patil, age 25 yrs., occu.service, r/o Boris Tq. & Dist.Dhule. ...Applicant.. Versus The State of Maharashtra. ...Respondent... ..... Shri Joydeep Chatterji, Advocate for applicant. Shri N.H. Borade, APP for respondent. ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS, J. DATE: 27.10.2010 PER COURT : 1] Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2] This is an application by the applicant, who is husband of deceased Deepali, who is alleged to have committed suicide on 31.7.2010. Consequent upon - 2 - Deepali committing suicide, First Information Report came to be lodged on the basis of which offence vide Crime No.58/2010 came to be registered u/s 304-B, 498-A, 323, 306, 406, 504 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code by Songir Police Station Dist.Dhule. It appears, upon perusal of the First Information Report, that about 15 days prior to Deepali committing suicide, Deepali had telephoned and informed her parents that a demand for rupees two lakhs was made by the accused in order to repay the agricultural loan and for that purpose, Deepali was being assaulted by all the accused. Deepali ultimately committed suicide on 31.7.2010. 3] Learned counsel for the applicant has made available for my perusal copies of the orders passed by the learned Single Judge in Criminal Application No. 3355/2010 and Criminal Application No.3331/2010. Criminal Application No. 3355/2010 had been filed by father in law, mother in law and sister in law of deceased Deepali. The said application was an application u/s 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which came to be rejected by the learned Single Judge by order dated 24.8.2010. By the aforesaid order, the learned Single Judge allowed Criminal Application No.3331/2010 filed by the brother of the present applicant. Subsequently, it appears that father in law of deceased Deepali filed Criminal Application No.3887/2010, which came to be allowed by the learned Single Judge by order dated 14.10.2010. I am further informed by the learned counsel for the applicant that mother in law and sister in law of deceased Deepali have also been enlarged on bail. - 3 - 4] In that light, it is urged before me that the rule of parity would be applicable to the present applicant as the allegations in the First Information Report are in respect of ill-treatment being meted out to deceased Deepali by all the accused. No special overt act is attributed to the present applicant alone. The learned APP, upon perusal of the papers, states that the allegations are common to all the accused. In that light of the matter, therefore, according to me, the present application also deserves to be allowed. 5] Consequently, Criminal Application No.4434/2010 is allowed. The applicant is directed to be released on bail on the applicant furnishing a P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.25,000/- with one solvent surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the Court below on the condition that the applicant shall not influence any prosecution witnesses nor shall he tamper the prosecution evidence. (P.V. Hardas, J.) ndk/cr27101021