1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1159 OF 2009 Mr. Kiran Ramrao Sonawane ..... Applicant. V/s State of Maharashtra ...... Respondent. Mr. S.K. Shinde for the applicant. Mr. S.S. Pednekar, APP for the State. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATE : 20th March, 2009 P.C:- 1. Heard the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the applicant and the learned APP appearing on behalf of the State. 2. Applicant has been arrested in connection with the offence punishable under sections 302, 323, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. Counsel for the applicant submits that there are two conflicting set of statements. According to some witnesses, the present applicant was not there at the scene of offence but was at some other place when the incident took place and some other witnesses have stated that the present applicant had assaulted the deceased with knife on his stomach. Counsel for the applicant submits that one other 2 accused against whom similar allegations were made has been released on bail by this Court in Criminal Application No.76 of 2009 by order dated 10/02/2009. 4. I have perused the said order. In the present case also, there are number of witnesses viz. Sagar Sudhakar Hingmire, Nevil Abraham, Vinod Shantilal Pardeshi, Bharat Dinesh Puranik & Nandakishore Madhukar Sonawane, who have stated that the applicant was not at the place of incident but was at different place. However, one of the witnesses viz. Sachin Mokal has stated that he had seen the applicant assaulting the deceased with the knife. Since, there are conflicting versions of the said incident and since charge- sheet already has been filed and one of the co-accused against whom similar allegations were made has been released on bail, the present applicant also deserves to be released on bail on the ground of parity. 5. Applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.29/2008 in the sum of Rs 5000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. Applicant shall not threaten any of the prosecution witnesses. He shall report to the concerned Police Station once in a month. 6. Application is disposed of. (V.M. KANADE, J.)