IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 3032 OF 2009 Baidabai Shamrao Thorat & anr ........ Applicants versus The State of Maharashtra ........Respondent. Mr. Manoj Kadam i/b. Pratap Patil adv. for the Applicant Mr. Rajesh More APP. for the Respondent/State. CORAM: A. P DESHPANDE, J. DATED : 31st July, 2009. P. C.: 1. The applicants are apprehending arrest in C.R. No. 167/09 registered on 22-5-2009 for offences punishable under sec. 306, 451, 452, 323, 504, 506 read with 34 of IPC. Initially an offence under section 302 IPC was registered. However after carrying out the investigation the offence has been converted from 302 to 306 IPC. Two persons have died in suspicious circumstances. Injuries were found on the person of the deceased and the cause of death is on account of consumption of poison. It is seen that there was prior enmity between the applicant’s family members on one hand and the deceased and complainant on the other hand. The present applicants are ladies and hence the learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that they need to be granted anticipatory bail. It is also pointed out that the names of the applicants do not find place in the FIR, however are roped in the supplementary statement of the wifes of the deceased. 2. Perused the supplementary statements recorded. According to the learned APP the investigation is at a crucial stage and if custodial interrogation of the applicant is not permitted, the investigation would suffer. Having regard to the nature of the offence and the involvement of the applicants, in my view it is not fit case for grant of anticipatory bail. Hence the same is rejected. (A. P. Deshpande, J.)