1 CAG-4073.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4073 OF 2010 Amol Ambadas Bankar .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent WITH CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4659 OF 2010 1. Amol Bhagwan Shende 2. Santosh Prakash Borate .... Applicants Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri Rahul S. Kate for the Applicant/s in both Applications. Ms P.H. Kantharia, APP, for the State in both Applications. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: NOVEMBER 24, 2010 P.C: The three applicants in these two applications seek bail in the offence of murder of one Shahji Mote. The applicant Amol Bankar had developed some intimacy with Shahji's wife before she married Shahji. Therefore, he wanted 2 CAG-4073.10 to eliminate Shahji. With the help of the applicants in Criminal Application No.4659 of 2010 and one other he killed Shahji by strangulating him and threw the dead body in a pit. The dead body was recovered at the instance of the applicant Amol Bankar on 4-2-2010. Thereafter, the investigating officer registered the FIR. One Vaishali Santaji Padmalkar runs a hotel at Village Gondavale. The victim and the applicants along with some others had refreshment at her hotel just before the incident, that is on 22-1-2010. She identified the applicants Amol Bankar and Amol Shende, but not the applicant Santosh Prakash Borate, at the T.I. parade which was held, as the persons who had accompanied Shahji Mote on the fateful day. The investigation is complete and the charge-sheet has been filed. Considering the nature of the motive attributed to the applicant Amol Bankar and the fact that information given by him led to the discovery of the dead body, as also the fact that Vaishali Padmalkar had identified the applicant Amol Shende also as the person who had accompanied Amol Bankar and the victim at her hotel, the applicants Amol Bankar and Amol Shende are not entitled to bail. Their applications are rejected. The applicant 3 CAG-4073.10 Santosh Prakash Borate in Criminal Application No.4659 of 2010 be released on bail in Sessions Case No.22 of 2010 arising out of C.R. No.16 of 2010 of Natepute Police Station, District Solapur on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.25,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.25,000/- on the condition that he will attend the police station concerned on the first Sunday of every month in between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. till the trial is over. The applications accordingly stand disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)