/ 1 / IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1129 OF 2008 IN CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.451 OF 2008 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.341 OF 2008 Chandu Mohan Lodi ...Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent --- Divakar D. Rai and Neville D. Deboo for Applicant Shri S.S. Pednekar for Respondent ---- CORAM: V.M. KANADE J. DATED 20TH OCTOBER, 2008 P.C. 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the Applicant and the learned APP for the State. The Applicant has been convicted for the offence punishable under section 326 and is sentenced to suffer R.I. for four years. The Applicant is in jail since last about 15 months. The appeal is not likely to come up for hearing for some time. Prosecution case is that the Applicant pushed an iron rod through the gap in the door, as a result of which the iron rod pierced through the eye of deceased Bindu, who succumbed to the injury and died after four days in the hospital. PW-1 has stated that she did not see who had pushed the iron rod inside the door. Admittedly, there were three persons standing outside the door. In view of this evidence and since, / 2 / the Applicant is in jail since last fifteen months, Applicant has made out a case for grant of bail. Applicant is released on bail in a sum of Rs.5,000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. He shall report to Sakinaka Police Station once in a month. Application is disposed of. V.M. KANADE J.