(1) CRI.APP. 3287.2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 3287 OF 2010 Vandana W/o Milind Landge, Age : 23 years, Occu: Household, R/o Kanhyanagar, Nava Jalna, Tq. and Dist. Jalna .. Applicant VERSUS The State of Maharashtra Through Investigation Officer, Sadar Bazar Police Station, Jalna (Copy to be served on P.P. of High Court of Judicature of Bombay Bench at Aurangabad) .. Respondent Mr. R.V. Gore, Advocate for the Applicant Mr. B.J. Sonawane, APP for the respondent-State ... CORAM : V.R. KINGAONKAR, J. DATED : 9TH SEPTEMBER, 2010 ORAL ORDER:- 1. The Application is for bail. 2. The applicant is wife of deceased Milind. She was married to deceased Milind prior to about two years of the alleged incident. The young couple was (2) CRI.APP. 3287.2010 blissed with a female child somewhere in the first week of May, 2008. Mother-in-law of the applicant had gone to her matrimonial house and, therefore, she and her minor daughter, aged about five months, and her husband were the only inmates in the house. Her father-in-law is employed as Forest labour and in the Government quarter, he used to reside alongwith deceased Milind and the applicant. In between night of 7th and 8th May, 2010, father-in-law of the applicant, namely Janardhan Landge was on night duty and had gone out of the house. When he returned home in the morning, he noticed that entrance door of the house was completely open and Milind was lying in pool of blood inside the house. The applicant and minor female child were not in the house. He therefore lodged FIR about the culpable homicide of Milind by some unknown person. 3. The investigation reveal that in the early hours of the said morning applicant was found leaving the home and had caught S.T. bus to reach her parents' house. Allegedly she gave extra-judicial (3) CRI.APP. 3287.2010 confession to her parents about having assaulted deceased Milind by means of a sickle and doing away with his life. 4. Heard learned Advocate for the applicant and learned APP. 5. First, it transpires from the investigation papers that there was nobody else in the house except deceased Milind and the applicant. The applicant did not inform the parents immediately about the cause of death of the said Milind. She was found missing from the place when the informant i.e. her father-in-law returned home. There are witnesses who saw her while leaving the place in the early hours of the said morning at about 4:45 am. A tapri owner, who runs a tea stall saw her at the S.T. stand with a small cloth bag and female child while boarding in S.T. bus and her parents gave statements before the Investigation Officer that she gave extra-judicial confession about her guilt. These are tale telling circumstances. It is therefore prima facie clear (4) CRI.APP. 3287.2010 that the applicant may be guilty of committing the alleged act of homicide. 6. No good case is made out to grant liberty and as such, the Application is dismissed. Sd/- [V.R. KINGAONKAR, J.] arp