1 APPLN 3871 OF 2010.sxw vks IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.3871 OF 2010. Ramnath Balu Ghodse .. Applicant -versus The State of Maharashtra .. Respondent. Ms. Sushma Nair, for the Applicant. Mrs R.V. Newton, APP for the respondent State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: 7th October, 2010 P.C. 1. This is an application for bail by a person who was seen by the informant and two other witnesses, assaulting the victim with sword. Learned counsel for the applicant submits first that injury observed in the postmortem report are contused lacerated wound, which could not be possible by a sharp object. She next submitted that the inquest panchnama was performed on 8th December,2009, when the dead body had already been received for the postmortem on 7th December,2009. She also stated that the informant and two eye witnesses who had allegedly seen the assailant, did not go to the rescue of the victim. All these things can be dealt with and considered by the learned Trial Judge at the time of trial. Since blows by swords could cause lacerated 2 APPLN 3871 OF 2010.sxw wounds, inquest was performed after the dead body was received in mortuary and credibility of witness is a matter of appreciation of evidence. The application is, therefore, rejected. (R. C. CHAVAN, J.)