IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR Criminal Application No. 253 of 2010 Gajanan Wankhede v. The State of Maharashtra ..................................................................................................................................................................... Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's order of directions and Registrar's orders ..................................................................................................................................................................... Mr A.M. Ghare, Advocate for applicant Mr S.B. Ahirkar, APP for State Coram : A.P. Bhangale, J Dated : 9th March 2010 1. Heard learned counsel for applicant and learned APP for State. Applicant is seeking bail in Crime No. 154/09 registered with Police Station, Washim for offence initially under Section 307 IPC and converted to Section 302IPC later on. 2. Accusations are serious. On the date of incident itself, dying declaration of deceased Durga was recorded by the Executive Magistrate after obtaining endorsement of the concerned attending medical officer about consciousness and fitness of victim. She attributed active role to applicant that he slapped her and thereafter set her on fire. She also apprehended danger to her life from applicant and requested for action against him. Statements of various persons have been recorded pointing out to the involvement of applicant in the crime. Under these circumstances, if benefit of bail is granted to applicant, he may tamper with prosecution evidence and avoid trial. It would be risky to enlarge him on bail in view of serious accusations and likelihood of his conviction and long sentence. Material collected during the course of investigation also gives support to the prosecution case and dying declarations of the victim. Looking to the prima facie involvement of the applicant in grave offence, bail application is rejected. However, trial Court shall endeavour to dispose of trial as early as possible. Judge. Hsj