vks 1 APPLN 3341 OF 2010.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 3341 OF 2010 Santosh Pandit Aarage ... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Mr. Rahul Kulkarni, for the applicant. Mrs S.D. Shinde, APP for the respondent State. CORAM : R.C.CHAVAN, J. DATE : 2nd SEPTEMBER, 2010. P.C. 1. The applicant is victim’s brother in law who was the first person to reach house. He stated that the victim had set herself on fire inside the house. According to him the door was closed from inside. In fact he caused it to be opened. He was the one who first informed the police. 2. The Panchnama of spot does not show that anybody could have closed the door from inside and come out of the house. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor states that since kerosene-can, was found in the kitchen and victim was found in the cattle shed it was improbable that that the victim would pour kerosene on herself at one place and set herself on fire at other place. 3. The statements of witnesses show that victim’s in laws were illtreating her for unlawful demand of amount of Rs.l,00,000/-, but vks 2 APPLN 3341 OF 2010.sxw exact role of the applicant in such illtreatment is not clear. There is general allegation that the in laws were illtreating her. In the circumstances the applicant be released on bail on his furnishing PR Bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the aggregate sum of Rs.50,000/-. [ R.C.CHAVAN, J. ]