1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1112 OF 2009 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1108 OF 2008 1. Laxman Dhondiram Date 2. Balu Ashok Meharkar ...Applicants vs. The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent Mr.Kuldeep S. Patil for the Applicants. Mr.S.R. Shinde, APP for the State. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATED : APRIL 6, 2010 P.C. :- 1 Heard Counsel for the applicants and APP for the State. 2 The applicants have been convicted for the offence punishable under Section 304 Part II read with 34 of the IPC and sentenced to undergo RI for seven years each. The applicant is in jail since 2 last two years. The appeal is not likely to come up for hearing immediately in the near future. Though the first application of the applicants was allowed to be withdrawn after the matter was argued for sometime, liberty was granted to them to apply again if the appeal is not heard within a reasonable period of time. Pursuant to liberty which was granted, the present application has been filed. The only ground urged by the applicants is that the applicants have already undergone two years of sentence out of the seven years of sentence passed by the Sessions Court. It is, therefore, submitted that on this ground, the applicants deserve to be released on bail. 3 Taking into consideration the sentence awarded by the Sessions Court and the fact that the applicants have already undergone two years out of the seven years which are awarded, the applicants deserve to be released on bail. Apart from that, the incident, in question, appears to have taken place 3 on a trivial ground and there was sudden quarrel between the applicants and the deceased. 4 The applicants, under these circumstances, be released on bail on execution of P.R.Bond in the sum of Rs.5000/- each with one or two sureties each in the like amount. The applicants shall attend the concerned police station as and when called. 5 Application is disposed of. (V.M. KANADE, J.)