{1} IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 178 OF 2010 Satish Magan Jadhav APPLICANT VERSUS The State of Maharashtra RESPONDENT ....... Mr.S.G.Jadhvar, Advocate for applicant Mr.N.B.Patil, APP for respondent State ....... [CORAM : A.V.POTDAR, J.] DATE: 28th January 2010 PER COURT: 1. This is an application by which the applicant has prayed to release him on bail in connection with CR No.20/2009 registered with Waluj Police station for an offence punishable us 302, 201, 498-A r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code, as the applicant is arrested on 17.02.2009 and charge sheet has been filed on 16.05.2009. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned APP. {2} 3. This appears to be a case of brutal murder of wife by her husband, applicant in the night of 12.02.2009 in a military forest area. Statement of the sister of applicant discloses that in the evening of 12.02.2009 she along with the deceased and the small kid of deceased were proceeding towards Ghati hospital, Aurangabad on the motor cycle of the applicant, and the applicant was riding the said motorcycle as the deceased was not feeling well. It is further stated that on the way, the applicant asked his sister to alight from the motor cycle along with the kid and join him on the bus stand. It is the case of the prosecution that instead of taking the deceased to Ghati Hospital, the applicant took her to a nearby forest, where after throttling her brutally, poured petrol on her person and set her on fire and thus committed murder of his wife and tried to destroy the dead body. Statements of the shop owners, who had last seen the applicant in the company of the deceased, are recorded. It further appears that thereafter, the applicant had contacted parents of the deceased and tried to mislead them in respect of whereabouts of the deceased. Finally, on 17.02.2009 the applicant came to be arrested. The applicant has shown the spot of the incident where partly burnt bones of the deceased were collected and were sent for DNA test. The DNA test has proved that the bones were of the deceased. Though it is urged that the case rests only on circumstances and there is no direct evidence, yet the circumstances strongly indicate that the applicant was last seen with the deceased and the place where the murder has been committed is a forest and isolated place. {3} Considering the way and manner in which the murder appears to be committed and the conduct of the applicant in destroying the dead body by setting it on fire, the applicant is not entitled for liberty. In the result, the application, which is sans merits stands rejected. [A.V.POTDAR, J.] drp/A10/criapln178-10