1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION NO.185 OF 2008 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.32 OF 2008 Monica @ Mona D'Souza .... Applicant Vs. State of Goa .... Respondent Mr. Lalit Chari, Senior Advocate with Ms Deepa Bajaj Ganjoot and Mr. K. Poulekar for the Applicant/Appellant. Ms W. Coutinho, Public Prosecutor, for the State of Goa. CORAM: SRI R.M.S. KHANDEPARKAR & SRI S.C. DHARMADHIKARI, JJ. DATED: 29TH JULY, 2008 P.C: 1. Heard. The application for bail is opposed by the learned Public Prosecutor relying upon the decisions of the Apex Court in the matters of Gomti v. Thakurdas & Ors., reported in 2007 Cri.L.J. 2 2431 and Sompal Singh v. Sunil Rathi and another, reported in 2004 AIR SCW 7411, while submitting that merely because the applicant/appellant was on bail during the trial, there is no justification for grant of bail once she is already convicted after full trial. 2. Bare perusal of the impugned judgment discloses that the accused is not a hardened criminal and the murder was not committed in a brutal manner. From the analysis of the materials on record, as has been done by the learned Sessions Judge, the offence does not appear to have been preplanned or a cold- blooded one nor it was an act of vindictiveness. Considering the manner in which the act is stated to have been committed, as is prima facie revealed from the impugned judgment, in our considered opinion, this is a fit case for grant of bail during the pendency of the appeal. The appellant was, undisputedly, on bail during the trial and she had not flouted any of the conditions of the bail. 3. In the circumstances, the application for bail is allowed. The appellant is directed to be released on bail, subject to the execution of personal bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- with one surety in the like amount with further condition that she should 3 disclose her residential address to the Registry of this Court as well as the Mapusa Police Station and shall also report to the said police station on the every first Monday of every month between 10:00 a.m. To 11:00 a.m.. Hamdust allowed. 4. The criminal application stands disposed of. Sd/- Sd/- (S.C.Dharmadhikari, J.) (R.M.S.Khandeparkar, J.) sjs/cri.M.A.185-08