1 HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR. CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.437 OF 2011 CHAMPAT SHAMA MOHITE VS THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA ______________________________________________________________________ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Shri Shantanu Ghate Advocate (appointed) for applicant. Smt. B. P. Maldhure, APP for respondent State. Coram : P.V. HARDAS AND S.B. DESHMUKH,JJ. Date : 04 th OCTOBER 2011. 1. A communication sent by the petitioner through Jail has been registered as the Criminal Writ Petition. We have, accordingly, appointed Advocate Shri Shantanu Ghate, learned Counsel to represent the petitioner in this petition before us. 2. The grievance of the petitioner is that as per earlier guidelines, the petitioner ought to have been placed in category 1-C, for which imprisonment of 24 years is provided instead of placing the petitioner in category 1-D where the imprisonment of 26 years is provided. It appears that the petitioner has now been placed in category 2-C under the new 2010 Guidelines. Category 2-C provides imprisonment for 26 years, where the crime is committed or death 2 of the victim is caused due to burns. Undisputedly,in the present case, the petitioner has set his wife ablazed and wife died on receiving burn injuries. In the light of that matter, therefore, according to us, placing of the petitioner in category 2-C of the 2010 Guidelines cannot be interfered. The petitioner has alleged that similarly circumstanced people have been given the benefit and have placed in the category 1-C of the 1992 Guidelines. However, in the light of the fact that the petitioner is now placed in category 2-C of the 2010 Guidelines and the placement of the petitioner is unexceptionable, we are not inclined to interfere in the present petition. This writ petition which is sans merit is, therefore, summarily dismissed with no order as to costs. 3. Fees payable to the learned appointed Counsel for the petitioner are quantified at Rs.1500/-. JUDGE JUDGE |mule| 3