IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.544 OF 2009 Bhima Kacharu Salve ...Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent --- Shri Rahul Kadam i/b. A.G. Waghule for Applicant Shri S.R. Shinde, APP for State ---- CORAM: V.M. KANADE J. DATED 16TH FEBRUARY, 2009 P.C. 1. Heard the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the Applicant and the learned APP for the State. 2. The Applicant was arrested in connection with an offence punishable under sections 498A, 306 r/w.34 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. The Applicant and the deceased got married in the year 2006. The deceased suspected that the Applicant had illicit relations with his childhood friend and neighbour. On the date of the said incident, the Applicant was accompanying his neighbour and they were talking with each other. The deceased took objection and the neighbour, therefore, abused her upon which she promptly went inside the house and poured kerosene from the bottle and set herself on fire. The Applicant promptly tried to save her, extinguished the fire and took her to the hospital. 4. Taking into consideration these facts, it is apparent that prima facie it cannot be said that the Applicant had treated her with cruelty and harassed her or demanded any dowry. The provisions under section 498A, therefore, are not attracted. The chargesheet has already been filed. Continued detention of the Applicant in jail, in my view, is not necessary since trial may not begin immediately in near future. The Applicant, therefore, deserves to be released on bail. 5. The Applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.109 of 2008 in a sum of Rs.5,000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. The Applicant shall report to the Shikrapur Police Station once in a month. 6. Application is disposed of. V.M. KANADE J.