1 APPA 612-2011 Anand IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO.612 OF 2011 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.319 OF 2011 Sambhaji Baburao Nikam ..Applicant V/s. The State of Maharashtra ..Respondent Mr.R.V.Bansode, Advocate, for the Applicant Mrs.M.M.Deshmukh, APP, for the Respondent - State CORAM : R.C.CHAVAN, J. DATE : 11TH JULY, 2011 P.C. . Heard the learned Counsel for the respective parties. 2. This is an application for suspension of a sentence by husband of the victim, who has been sentenced by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Thane to suffer rigorous imprisonment for three and ten years for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A & 306 of the Indian Penal Code respectively. The 2 APPA 612-2011 allegation is that the applicant ill treated the victim, who was mother of two children, making her commit suicide by setting herself on fire. There is also an allegation that this ill treatment was on account of an unfulfilled demand of Rs.1,00,000/- about which curiously the victim's father is silent. The instances of ill treatment given by the victim's mother are that, there was some theft of a sum of Rs.500/- from the victim's bag and the applicant is alleged to have suspected that the victim might have given this amount to the victim's parents for purchasing a bullock cart. The victim was not allowed to see her parents and she was also not allowed to see the female child of her sister or to invite her parents at the marriage of her brother-in-law. The victim was taken by the applicant in the absence of her parents from the parental home and the applicant made the victim to walk to his house when she had delivered a child. 3 APPA 612-2011 3. Considering the nature of allegations which have surfaced after the incident and the fact that the applicant was on bail through out the trial, as also the near impossibility of taking up the Appeal for hearing in the near future, the substantive sentence imposed upon the applicant stands suspended on his furnishing fresh bonds in the same sum on which he was on bail throughout the trial. 4. Criminal Bail Application is disposed of. (R.C.CHAVAN, J.)