BA-644-11.sxw 1 Dixit IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO.644 OF 2011 Muluk Mehboob Hotagi ... Applicant V/s. The State of Maharashtra, Thru' North Akkalkot Police Station, Dist. Solapur ... Respondent Mr. U.R. Agandsurve for the Applicant. Mrs. R.V. Newton, APP, for the Respondent. CORAM:- A.M. THIPSAY, J. DATED :- 27 TH JULY, 2011. P.C. : 1. Heard. 2. With the assistance of the learned Advocate for the Applicant and the learned APP for the Respondent, I have gone through the Charge-Sheet. 3. One Goroba Ranzunjare, cousin of the First Informant-Krushna Ranzunjare, died a homicidal death. He had some property disputes with one Mehboob Abdul Hotagi, father of the Applicant. The Applicant Muluh Hotagi, allegedly, had once given a threat to the said Goroba that he would finish him. After Goroba had died a homicidal death, there was a talk in the town that he BA-644-11.sxw 2 Dixit had been killed by the present Applicant. On the basis of such talk, the First Informant expressed suspicion against the Applicant, who came to be arrested on 20th December, 2010. 4. During the investigation, the shirt of the Applicant was seized. It has been sent to the Chemical Analyzer for examination, but, till today, the Chemical Analyzer's report in that regard is not received, though Charge-Sheet has been filed. 5. Except the suspicion expressed by the First Informant, which again is said to be based on the talk that was going on in the town, there is no other material against the Applicant. The Applicant is in custody since December, 2010. I am informed that the trial has not yet commenced. 6. Under the circumstances, I am inclined to release the Applicant on bail. 7. The Bail Application is allowed. 8. The Applicant is ordered to be released on bail in the sum of Rs.30,000/-, with one surety in like amount. [A.M. THIPSAY, J.]