jpc ba732-11.sxw 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO. 732 OF 2011 Sunil Sakharam More ... Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Mr. Sameer Pradhan for the applicant Mrs. R. V. Newton, APP for the State CORAM:- A.M. THIPSAY, J. DATED :- 7th July, 2011. P.C. : 1. Heard Mr. Pradhan, the learned advocate for the applicant and Mrs. Newton, the learned APP for the State. 2. I have gone through the First Information Report and other annexures to the bail application. The applicant has been arrested on 11/7/2010 and continues to be in custody. The allegation against him is that he has committed the offences punishable under Section 376 and 366 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. The case of the victim, who is admittedly not minor, is that she was in love with the applicant and that they used to meet each other. That on 27th May, 2010, the applicant and the victim went to one lodge and hired a room there. It is alleged that in that room, the jpc ba732-11.sxw 2 applicant committed rape on the victim. The victim, further narrates that since the applicant had assured her that he would marry her, she did not mention to anyone about the said incident. 4. It appears that thereafter, some meeting between the members of the families of the applicant and the victim took place and it appears that the families did not approve the said relationship. Thereafter, on 29th June, 2010, the applicant again took the victim to a lodge and committed rape on the victim. When the applicant is alleged to have refused to marry the victim on 6/7/2010, the FIR came to be lodged on 11th July, 2010. 5. Considering the nature of the allegation and all other relevant circumstances, I am inclined to release the applicant on bail. 6. The application is allowed. 7. The applicant is ordered to be released on bail in the sum of Rs. 20,000/-(Rupees twenty thousand only) with one surety in like amount, or two sureties in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- each. (A.M. THIPSAY, J.)