MP 1 BA1833_11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO.1833 OF 2011 Hanmant Navnath Survase ... Applicant Versus State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Mr. P.R.Arjunwadkar, Advocate for the Applicant. Mr. Y.S. Shinde, APP for the Respondent State. CORAM : J. H. BHATIA, J. DATE : 13TH DECEMBER 2011 P. C. : The applicant seeks to be released on bail in crime No.88 of 2011 registered with Taluka Police Station, Solapur for the offences punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. 2. Prosecution case, in brief, is that, during the night between 06.05.2011 and 07.05.2011, when wife of the accused was sleeping, the accused committed her murder with a koyta or sickle because he was suspicious about her character. After committing murder, he himself went to Chawdi Police Station, Solapur with his small daughter on his shoulder and he informed the Assistant Police Sub-Inspector Ambadas Baburao Waghmare about the said incident. Assistant P.S.I. Waghmare directed him to go to Solapur Taluka Police Station and accordingly, he went there. After the oral information given by the accused, police verified from his landlord and after confirming that his wife was dead, the F.I.R. was lodged by Police Patil and the offence came to be registered. The dead body and the sickle were found in the house of the accused. Blood stains were found on his clothes, which were seized. There is no eyewitness. The whole case is based on circumstantial evidence. The applicant is in custody since 07.05.2011. MP 2 BA1833_11 3. The learned Counsel for the applicant contends that in view of the conduct of the accused, there is no possibility of his absconding as also tampering with the prosecution evidence as there is no eyewitness. Therefore, he seeks bail. Though the learned Counsel for the applicant appears to be right on these two points, still, taking into consideration the gravity of the offence, it will not be desirable to grant bail but it would be in the interests of justice to direct the trial Court to expedite the trial. 4. Therefore, the application for bail stands rejected. However, the learned Sessions Judge, Solapur is hereby directed to expedite the trial of the case and dispose of the same, as early as possible, and in any case, by the end of April 2012. (J. H. BHATIA, J)