1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 2173 OF 2010 Narayan Jayant Bijani ...Applicant (Orig.Accused No.1) vs. State of Maharashtra ...Respondent Mr.Gajendra Jadhav for the Applicant. Mr.S.A. Shaikh, APP for the State. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATED : JUNE 16, 2010 P.C. :- 1 Heard Counsel for the applicant and APP for the State. 2 The applicant was arrested for the offence punishable under Sections 498A, 307, 109, 201 read with 34 of the IPC registered with the Ulhasnager Police Station vide C.R.No. I-155 of 2008. He was 2 arrested on 19th August, 2008. 3 It is submitted that his first application for bail was rejected on merits by this court on 6th February, 2009. It is further submitted that the trial is pending and the charge also has not been framed so far by the trial court. It is submitted that the liberty was granted by this court to make a fresh application for bail if the trial is not over within six months from the date of the order. 4 I am informed that though the trial was expedited by this court, charge is not yet framed. Since it appears that the trial has not yet begun, the trial may not be over immediately in the near future. Since the applicant is in jail for more than two years as under-trial prisoner, on that ground alone, the applicant deserves to be released on bail, more particularly, because in spite of a direction given by this court to decide the case, expeditiously, the trial court has not yet begun the 3 trial. Secondly, the offence alleged against the applicant is under Section 498A, 307 of the IPC. 5 In view of this circumstance, the applicant be released on bail on execution of P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.5000/- with one or to sureties in the like amount. The applicant shall report to the concerned police station once in a month. The applicant shall not threaten the prosecution witnesses and shall not enter the jurisdiction of the area where his wife resides in Ulhasnagar No.3. 6 Application is disposed of. (V.M. KANADE, J.)