1 cri.appln 690-2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 690 OF 2011 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1232 OF 2008 Ramchandra Vitthal Patil ...Applicant vs. The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent Mrs.Indu Varma, Advocate appointed for the Applicant. Ms.M.H. Mhatre, APP for the State. CORAM : B.H. MARLAPALLE & U.D. SALVI, JJ. JUNE 21, 2011 P.C. :- 1 This application is filed through Jail and the applicant, who is presently undergoing life sentence, has prayed for early hearing of Criminal Appeal No.1232/2008. The applicant came to be convicted in Sessions Case No.26/2007 for the offence punishable under Section 302 of IPC, as per the order passed by the First Additional Sessions Judge at Kolhapur, on 27th June, 2008. 2 cri.appln 690-2011 2 As of now, we are hearing Criminal Appeals (Jails) chronologically and such appeals from the year 2002 are pending. Upto the year 2005, such pending appeals are about 400 and unless they are heard and decided, it would be difficult for us to start hearing of the appeals of the year 2006. The applicant’s appeal has been filed in the year 2008. 3 Hence, the application is rejected. (U.D. SALVI, J) (B.H. MARLAPALLE, J)