- 1 - IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.143 OF 2007 Anil U.Gote. .. Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .. Respondents -- Shri Sameer Vaidya, Advocate for the Petitioner. Shri S.R.Borulkar, PP for the Respondents. -- CORAM : SRI R.M.S.KHANDEPARKAR & SRI A.A.SAYED, JJ DATED : 23RD JANUARY, 2008 P.C. 1. Heard the learned advocate for the Petitioner and the learned PP for the Respondents. Perused the records and the affidavits filed by the parties. 2. The petitioner was essentially making grievance about the failure on the part of the respondents authorities to conduct necessary inquiries regarding custodial deaths. In the process of hearing and in terms of the directions given from time to time, the inquiries were conducted by the authorities and the last affidavit filed on behalf of the - 2 - respondents on 26th October, 2007 discloses that the necessary inquiries were conducted in respect of all the custodial deaths and none of the inquiries revealed any foul-play in the case of death of inmates in jail. The affidavits filed by the petitioner also do not doubt about the genuineness of the inquiries or about the result disclosed in the inquiries. Since the respondents have complied with the legal requirements in relation to the custodial deaths and none of the inquiries disclosed any foul-play, nothing further survives in the matter and the petition is accordingly liable to be disposed of. 3. We have perused the suggestions made by the petitioner in relation to the jail reforms. Needless to observe that the respondents may take into consideration the said suggestions while formulating guidelines for jail reformation, while appreciating the concern shown by the petitioner about the matter, with these observations, as nothing further survives in the matter, the petition is accordingly disposed of with no order as to costs. (SRI R.M.S.KHANDEPARKAR, J) - 3 - ( SRI A.A.SAYED, J )