1 abs FARAD CONTINUATION IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 4451 OF 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Court's or Judge's Orders Coram, appearances, Court's Orders or directions and Registrar's Orders Mr. Nitesh Bhutekar i/b Mr. U.P. Warunjikar for the applicants. Mrs. A.A. Mane, A.P.P. for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATE : 16TH FEBRUARY 2010 P.C. : 1. By this application, the applicants seek bail in connection with C.R. No. 317 of 2008 registered at Khadak Police Station, District Pune for an offence punishable under sections 302, 307, 342, 323, 504, 143, 147, 149 of the I.P.C., section 4(25) of the Indian Arms Act and section 135 of the Bombay Police Act. 2. By an order dated 30th June 2009, the learned Sessions Judge has dismissed the 2 application for bail of the applicants. It is not necessary to repeat the facts which have been mentioned in the order of the learned Sessions Judge. 3. There is prima facie material connecting the applicants to the crime. There are eye witnesses to the crime. The offence is a serious offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life. 4. The only ground for bail argued by the learned counsel for the applicants is that the applicants are young persons aged 19 to 30 years and therefore they may be shown leniency. I doubt whether young adulthood can at all be a ground for leniency. In any event, that is a matter for the trial court to consider while awarding the sentence. Young adulthood by itself cannot be a ground for grant of bail. The application is accordingly rejected. (D.G. KARNIK, J.)