1 mpt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 889 of 2010 Sudam Namdeo Gaikwad ... Applicant versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent ... Mr.D.S. Mhaispurkar for the applicant. Mrs.M.R.Tidke APP for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATED : 8th March 2010 P.C. 1. Heard. 2. By this application, applicant seeks bail in connection with C.R.No. I-7 of 2010 registered at Badlapur (W) Police Station, District Thane for an alleged offence punishable u/s.498A, 306 r/w section 34 of the IPC. 3. Applicant is the father in law of Sandhya Bagale, the deceased. Sandhya was married to Vishal, son of the applicant on 9th November 2009 and she committed a suicide on 13th February 2010. Father of Sandhya lodged a FIR alleging therein that the applicant i.e. Father-in- 2 law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law of the deceased were harassing her principally on two counts viz. wearing of certain types of clothes and secondly on account of inadequate presents given at the time of the wedding. In the FIR, father of the deceased stated that husband of the deceased was a nice person and he and or his daughter Sandhya had no complaint against him. 4. The mother in law and sister in law of the deceased have been granted pre-arrest bail by the Sessions Court. However, the application of the present applicant has been rejected. The FIR does not disclose any specific role played by the present applicant and his case cannot be said to be different from the mother in law and sister in law of the deceased, save and except that there is an allegation that present applicant was also involved in another crime and the trial thereof is pending. In my view, that cannot be a ground for rejection of pre-arrest bail. Hence, I pass the following order:- O R D E R In the event applicant is arrested in connection with C.R.No.7 of 2010 of Badlapur(W) Police Station, he shall be released on bail on execution P.R. Bond of Rs.15,000/- with one surety of the like amount. (D.G. KARNIK,J.)