mpt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION No.4830 of 2009 Sau Kaushlya Devidas Ghodake & ors ... Applicants versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent ... Mr.J.D.Mane for applicant Mrs.A.A. Mane APP for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATED : 6th January 2010 P.C. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants and learned APP for the State. 2. The applicants seek bail in connection with a crime registered against them under C.R.No.130 of 2009 of Sadar Bazar police station for an offence punishable u/s.302 of the IPC. 3. The offence is serious and is punishable with death or imprisonment for life. 4. There is a prima facie material connecting the applicants to the crime. The deceased was the daughter­in­law of applicant and sister­in­ law of applicant nos.2 and 3. She was burnt alive. She has given a dying declaration implicating the three applicants. The fact that the husband of the deceased was granted bail would be of no assistance to the applicants as in the dying declaration itself the deceased had attributed no role to the husband and in fact had stated that husband tried to douse the fire. Since there is a prima facie material against the involvement of the applicants in the crime and the offence is serious and punishable with death or Imprisonment for life, I am not inclined to grant bail to the applicants at this stage. If however the trial does not commence within a reasonable time say of six months from now, the applicants may renew their request for bail. With these observations, application is disposed of. (D.G. KARNIK,J.)