MP 1 BA1838_11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO.1838 OF 2011 Firoza Salim Sayed ... Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Ms Noorseema M. Baig, Advocate for the Applicant. Mr. Y. S. Shinde, APP for the Respondent State. CORAM : J. H. BHATIA, J. DATE : 22ND DECEMBER 2011 P. C. : The applicant seeks to be released on bail in crime No.111 of 2010 registered with Mumbra Police Station, District Thane, for the offences punishable under Sections 302 and 452 of the Indian Penal Code. 2. Prosecution case, in brief, is that after some quarrel between the daughter of the present applicant and daughter of the deceased, the applicant entered into the house of the deceased Jainbi Jafar Shaikh and poured kerosene on her from a can and then set her ablaze with a matchstick. People from neighbourhood had also assembled. Her husband extinguished fire and took her to hospital. Her report was recorded by the police sub-inspector of Mumbra Police Station in the hospital. Thereafter, her statement was also recorded by Tahsildar on the same day. Post-mortem report also reveals that she had died because of septicemia due to superficial to deep burn. The learned APP points out that the charge is already framed and the case is fixed for trial. Summons are also issued to the witnesses. Taking into consideration the nature of offence and the fact that the case is at the stage of trial, it will not be in the interests of justice to grant bail. MP 2 BA1838_11 3. Therefore, the application stands rejected. The trial Court shall expedite the trial and dispose of the case as early as possible, and in any case, by the end of March 2012. (J. H. BHATIA, J)