1 CA-4122.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4122 OF 2010 Bhupal Satyappa Zinage .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri Nitin Pradhan i/b Ms Ameeta Kuttikrishnan for the Applicant. Ms M.M. Deshmukh, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 P.C: A brother seeks bail in the offence of murder of his own elder brother. The applicant and his elder brother, deceased Balwant, had a quarrel over their landed property. On the day of the incident the applicant and his brother Jaypal are alleged to have beaten Balwant with sticks resulting in as many as 24 injuries on the person of the victim. The victim was an old man. He died as a result of the injuries sustained by him. There are three eye-witnesses who saw the applicant and his brother Jaypal beating the victim. The notes of post-mortem examination show that out of those injuries 2 CA-4122.10 caused, three of them are on the right upper extremity, i.e., on the hands and legs. The three injuries on the back are a contusion on the thoracic region, two small abrasions and an abrasion on the medial border of right scapula. There are no fractures, except a fracture of metacarpal of ring finger of left hand. The investigation is complete and the charge-sheet has been filed. Given the nature of the assault and the fact that the applicant also claims to have been injured at the hands of the deceased, the applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.32 of 2010 of Ashta Police Station, Sangli on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.50,000/- on the condition that the applicant shall attend the police station concerned on the first and third Sundays of every month in between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. till the trial is over. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)