1 BA 1195-2011 Anand IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.1195 OF 2011 Sukdev Punjaba Satalkar .Applicant V/s. The State of Maharashtra .Respondent Mr.M.S.Karnik, Advocate, for the Applicant Mr.J.P.Kharge, APP, for the Respondent - State CORAM : R.C.CHAVAN, J. DATE : 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2011 P.C. . Heard the learned Counsel for the respective parties. 2. This is an application of a father seeking bail in connection with F.I.R.No.121 of 2010 for the offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code registered with Yeola Police Station, Taluka Yeola, District Nashik, since he has been arrested and charge sheeted for the murder of his own son. The victim's wife had gone to 2 BA 1195-2011 Kalyan for some function at her aunt's house. The victim was addicted to liquor. On 10th November, 2010 he came home, had some talk with his wife on telephone and asked her to return but found that his wife was not ready to return. The victim is alleged to have poured Kerosene on his person and set himself on fire according to the statement of applicant's wife. The applicant himself extinguished the fire and took the victim to hospital. The victim gave a dying declaration in the hospital stating that he had a quarrel with his father. His father poured Kerosene on his person. He himself also poured Kerosene on his person and then his father set him on fire. There is a statement of witness Sandip Prabhakar Mahajan recorded under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure which shows that he was attracted by cries from the victim's house, found the victim on fire and the applicant trying to extinguish the fire. He also helped the applicant and 3 BA 1195-2011 took the victim in an Ambulance to Rural Hospital, Yeola. The witness also states that the victim was drunken. Considering the nature of evidence collected, though there is dying declaration indicating the complicity of the applicant in the crime, since investigation is complete and charge sheet has already been filed, no fruitful purpose would be served by keeping the applicant behind the bar pending the trial. Applicant be released on bail on his furnishing P.R.Bond of Rs. 25,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the aggregate sum of Rs.25,000/- till the trial is over. 3. Criminal Application stands disposed of. (R.C.CHAVAN, J.)