1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 2134 OF 2010 Babaso Krishna Bansode. ..Applicant. Vs. State of Maharashtra. ..Respondent. Mr. Vilas Kolekar for the Applicant. Smt.A.A.Mane, APP. For the Respondent. CORAM : R.S. MOHITE, J. DATE : 06/5/2010 PC : 1 This is an application for grant of bail. The applicant is shown as an accused in CR No. 3/2009 registered by Tasgaon Police Station for the alleged offences under Section 302, 364, 342, 120B and 201 of the IPC. The deceased is one Anant Tukaram Nalawade. It is the case of the prosecution that Anant Nalawade was fed up of paying maintenance and other harassment caused by his wife and therefore, he hired his child friend Mohan Takale and two others including the applicant to do 2 away his wife and paid an amount of Rs.2.00 lacs. 2 The learned APP states that a chit has been found in the house of the deceased indicating that he has paid an amount of Rs.2.00 lacs. to Mohan Takale. The deceased was demanding amount of Rs. 2.00 lacs back. In this background it is alleged that Mohan Takale alongwith Hambirrao Mane and Maruti Kamble killed the deceased Anant Nalavade. As far as present applicant is concerned, he is admittedly not involved in the actual killing. Material against him consists of statement of co accused Mohan Takale and Hambirrao Mane. In the circumstances, I am inclined to grant bail to the applicant. It is therefore, directed that pending his trial in connection with C.R.No.93/2009 registered by Tasgaon Police Station, the applicant may be released on bail in the sum of Rs.25,000/- with one surety in the like amount subject to the condition that he reports to the Investigating officer once in a fortnight on every first and 3 third Monday s between 11.00a.m. and 5.00p.m. till the disposal of the trial, does not tamper with prosecution witnesses and remains present on all the dates of the trial unless exempted. Application is disposed off. 2 Parties to act on a copy of this order duly authenticated by the registry of this court. ( R.S. MOHITE, J.)